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"It is one test of a fully developed writer that he reminds us of no one but himself."
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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."

"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things."

"I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published."

"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."
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"Giving jazz the Congressional seal of approval is a little like making Huck Finn an honorary Boy Scout."

"Once we thought, journalists and readers alike, that if we put together enough "facts" and gave them a fast stir, we would come up with something that, at least by the standards of short-order cooks, could be called the truth."

"To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions."

"Journalists do not like to report on uncertainties. They would almost rather be wrong than ambiguous."

"Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species."
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