“I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.”
Source: Flight: A Quantum Fiction Novel (1995), Ch. 17
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“I'm just a ballplayer, not a sports writer. I don't compare 'em; I just catch 'em.”
Context: Mays said he thought maybe the Skinner catch was a bit better than yesterday's, as well as a catch he made on a ball hit this season by Gus Bell of the Cincinnati Reds. "But I don't want to compare 'em," said Willie. "I'm just a ballplayer, not a sports writer. I don't compare 'em; I just catch 'em."
Reluctantly comparing his famous catch in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series to a pair of catches made during that season on May 26 https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0akpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Gk4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=1599%2C3418911&dq=willie-mays-made-star-tling-catch-bob-skinner and June 6 http://www.mediafire.com/view/m5bmpfxdu5ciu3m/%20.png, respectively (the latter "circus catch" made not against Bell, as per Mays' recollection, but rather Chuck Harmon, who directly preceded Bell in the lineup that day); as paraphrased and quoted in "Willie Modestly Scoffs at Raves Over Big Catch" by UPI, in Newsday (September 30, 1954), p. 95
“I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.”
“I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.”
“As a writer, I'm a composite intelligence.”
Yonder Mark (ed.), The Quotable Gordimer, 2014.
Reuters News Agency (October 10, 2005)
2007, 2008
“I'm just an alcoholic who became a writer so that I would be able to stay in bed until noon.”
Source: Jsem jen alkoholik, co se stal spisovatelem, aby mohl zůstat v posteli do poledne.
