Anyone of any age, any race, any background, any education - if they write an interesting enough book - can become a published author. What it takes is imagination, the ability to put words on a paper in an interesting, perhaps even unique way, the fortitude to rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, and polish, edit, polish, edit until the story sort of sings. I think everyone has a story inside him, but only a few have the persistence and, of course, the interest, to write it down and see it through.
Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example, I may see … - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Once I have the idea for a story. I start collecting all kinds of helpful information and storing it in three-ring notebooks. For example, I may see …
- Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
…and I’m thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part i… - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
…and I’m thinking how nothing is as simple as you guess-not right or wrong, not Judd Travers, not even me or this dog I got here. But the good part i…
It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself. - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself.
The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanic… - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanic…
We all have found ourselves in awkward, embarrassing situations, often brought on by ourselves - thinking we are saying something clever, for example… - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
We all have found ourselves in awkward, embarrassing situations, often brought on by ourselves - thinking we are saying something clever, for example…
I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the m… - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
I used to think that when I grew up there wouldn't be so many rules. Back in elementary school there were rules about what entrance you used in the m…
Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do. - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.
Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said. - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Why is life so complicated....?' I asked. 'To keep us from being bored,' he said.
Happiness is wanting what you have. - Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Happiness is wanting what you have.
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