Phyllis A. Whitney Quotes

I offer optimism. All my books have happy endings. I don't see any point in letting my readers down at the end. I'm an optimist - people feel that in my books.

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• I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Want
  • Down
  • Mental Illness

• We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Writing
  • Book
  • True

• I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Human
  • Characters
  • Flawed

• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  

  Otto Schily
  • World
  • Feel
  • Hatred

• Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' just rocked my world in the late '80s and early '90s. I couldn't read them fast enough.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • World
  • Late
  • Fast

• America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • America
  • Mistakes
  • Hell

• If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Question
  • Look
  • Make A Difference

• Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Life
  • Up
  • Growing

• I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Control
  • Best
  • Focus

• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Literature
  • Reverence
  • Fatal

• We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Same
  • Vices
  • Ladder

• What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.

  

  Flume
  • Always
  • Dance
  • Difficult

• I'd never been published when I was young.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Never
  • Young
  • Published

• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • I Believe

• This Islam business kidnapped me.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Business
  • Me
  • Islam

• I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Career
  • Fashion
  • Chances

• Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

  

  Gary Ackerman
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Act

• The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Light
  • Sometimes
  • Queen

• This only grant me, that my means may lie too low for envy, for contempt too high.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • May
  • High
  • Me

• Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Night

• The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim their fugitives I have constantly admitted. The legal right of Congress to interfere with their institution in the states, I have constantly denied.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Legal
  • Southern

• I hope they can see that as a consumer, if they express themselves, they may make an impact and leverage their impact on the brands, and the brands can leverage their buying power on tens of thousands of polluters - suppliers - in China.

  

  Ma Jun
  • May
  • Power
  • Hope

• When in doubt, do it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Doubt
  • When In Doubt

• I offer optimism. All my books have happy endings. I don't see any point in letting my readers down at the end. I'm an optimist - people feel that in my books.

  

  Phyllis A. Whitney
  • People
  • Happy