"I am the worlds laziest writer."

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"If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist."

Marianne Moore, American Poet

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"A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books."

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"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."

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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."

Walter Jon Williams, American Writer

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

Fiona Shaw, Irish Actress

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"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."

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"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."

Hugh Leonard, Irish Dramatist

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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."

Musicians

"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."

Jazz

"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."

Jazz

"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."

Idea

"Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play."

People

"I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one."

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"I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos."

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

"A writer can do without food for a few hours, but not without the sight of books."

"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."

"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."

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

"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."

"I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else."

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"We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour."

"You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz."

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"If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you."

"I play as I feel."

"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."

"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."

"Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play."

"I don't do something because I think it will sell 30 million albums. I couldn't care less. If it sells one, it sells one."

"I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos."