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"I was quite a reader before I became a writer."
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"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."
"I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist."
"I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer."
"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."
"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
"How many authors are there among writers? Author means originator."
"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."
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"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."
"The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that."
"I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish."
"After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect."
"This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn."
"I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books."
"The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are."
"Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either."
"I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried."
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