Writing Career
After retiring from the Coast Guard, Haley began his writing career, and eventually became a senior editor for Reader's Digest.
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“Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.”
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“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”
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“I doubt that I would have taken so many leaps in my own writing or been as clear about my feminist and political commitments if I had not been anointed as early as I was. Some major form of recognition seems to have to mark a woman’s career for her to be able to go out on a limb without having her credentials questioned.”
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