Alex Haley Quotes About Writing
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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.
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That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance.
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In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
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Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
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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.
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