Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.
"Alexander Murray Palmer "Alex" Haley" was an American writer known as the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. The book was adapted by ABC as a TV mini-series of the same name and aired in 1977 to a record-breaking 130 million viewers. It had great influence on awareness in the United States of African-American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history.
Haley's first book was 1965's The Autobiography of Malcolm X, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with the subject, a major African-American leader.
He was working on a second family history novel at his death. Haley had requested that David Stevens (screenwriter)/David Stevens, a screenwriter, complete it; the book was published as Queen: The Story of an American Family/Alex Haley's Queen. It was adapted as a film of the same name released in 1993.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous novelists! More Alex Haley on Wikipedia.I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.
In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.
Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.
Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.
My fondest hope is that "Roots" may start black, white, brown, red, yellow people digging back for their own roots. Man, that would make me feel 90 feet tall.
When you start about family, about lineage and ancestry, you are talking about every person on earth.
Beginning writers must appreciate the prerequisites if they hope to become writers. You pay your dues - which takes years.
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