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

-- Alex Haley

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Appreciate Quotes

“First of all, what happens is, when you're good at something, you spend a lot of time with it. People identify you with that sport, so it becomes part of your identity.”
“It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.”
“I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.”
“In the end, Mothers are always right. No one else tells the truth.”

Source : Randy Susan Meyers (2010). “The Murderer's Daughters”, p.13, Macmillan
“Labour itself is but a sorrowful song,The protest of the weak against the strong.”
“We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.”
“With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.”

Source : "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2, ABC’s RED WIDOW, the Status of AKA JESSICA JONES, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 14, 2012.
“When we are honest - that's my saying - if we are honest then we will reveal ourselves. But we do not have to make an effort to be individualistic, different from others.”

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