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"I am the worlds laziest writer."
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"The Rift, which was well over a thousand pages of manuscript, took two years."
"I'm a schoolteacher and a writer. So that's what I do."
"All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour."
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"And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them."
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"The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits me fine."
"If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer."
"I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that. I didn't know what else to do about it except write about it."
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"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."
"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."
"Too many jazz pianists limit themselves to a personal style, a trademark, so to speak. They confine themselves to one type of playing."
"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."
"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."
"I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea."
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