Alex Haley Quotes about Writing

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

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

Writing, Black History, Alex

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

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.