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"I was quite a reader before I became a writer."
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"I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer."
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"I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody."
"I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories."
"I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it."
"I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried."
"The best compliment I ever had is, one day I was in Nashville, some disc jockey said, Hey, that sounds like a Tom T. Hall song. Up until then there hadn't been any such thing."
"My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it."
"When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please."
"It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership."
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