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

Bruce Jackson, American Public Servant

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"As a very experienced writer once told me, 'It's in the rewrites'."

Tom Skerritt, American Actor

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"So the lover must struggle for words."

T. S. Eliot, American Poet

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"Anybody can direct, but there are only eleven good writers."

Mel Brooks, American Comedian

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

Pawan Mishra, Indian Author

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

Stephen Ambrose, American Historian

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"Good writers are of necessity rare."

George Henry Lewes, English Philosopher

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"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."

Clarence Thomas, American Judge

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"The writer is more concerned to know than to judge."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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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."

Patti Smith, American Musician

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

Jazz

"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

"I have no one style."

Style

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

Musicians

"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."

Care

"I play as I feel."

Play

"The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that."

Love

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

People

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

Idea

"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."

Time