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"I was quite a reader before I became a writer."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill."
"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."
"I'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried."
"The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea."
"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."
"After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect."
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