Alex Haley Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.

  Alex Haley

  Writing, Years, Appreciate

• In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.

  Alex Haley

  Writing, Black History, Alex

  "A Kwanzaa Celebration" by Angela Shelf Medearis, (p. 154), 1995.

• Your attitude is everything. Believe in yourself and trust your material. To be a successful writer, write every single day where you feel like it or not. Never, never give up, and the world will reward you beyond your wildest dreams.

  Alex Haley

  Dream, Giving Up, Attitude

• That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.

  Alex Haley

  Writing, Substance, Ingredients

• Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big difference between being a writer and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. You've got to want to write, I say to them, not want to be a writer. The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose longing is never requited. Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty. I did.

  Alex Haley

  Dream, Lonely, Writing

  "Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work". Book by Jack Canfield, Maida Rogerson, Mark Victor Hansen, and Martin Rutte, 1996.

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