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"I was quite a reader before I became a writer."
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"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."

"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."

"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."

"Good writers are of necessity rare."

"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."

"I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best."

"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"I was well traveled, and I created this illusion of literacy through reading and writing. I wrote a book of short stories."


"The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are."


"Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion."


"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'm a very comfortable and happy-go-lucky old man. I never wanted to be great, because I'd just get worried."


"The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that."


"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."


"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."
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