Buck Owens (1929–2006) American country singer-songwriter
"Pledge To Country Music" in Music City News (March 1965)
“As the writer of the lyric of the song ‘God’s Country’, I am outraged by the suggestion that somehow I am connected with, believe in, or am sympathetic with Communist or totalitarian philosophy.”
Letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee (1950), as quoted in "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", by Scott Jacobs, in The Week Behind (23 September 2009) http://www.theweekbehind.com/2009/09/23/somewhere-over-the-rainbow/
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Sai Paranjpye (1938) Indian film director
The Hindu article by Arti Das - I am a first-class writer and a second-class director: Sai Paranjpye https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/i-am-a-first-class-writer-and-a-second-class-director-sai-paranjpye/article26606850.ece - 23 March 2019 - Archive https://web.archive.org/web/20210901092539/https://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/movies/i-am-a-first-class-writer-and-a-second-class-director-sai-paranjpye/article26606850.ece <br class="br">Quotes from Sai Paranjpye
“I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.”
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000) American writer
My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget (1995) by Dorothy Winbush Riley
“As a poet I am an emotional accident; a lyrical tourist.”
José Baroja (1983) Chilean author and editor
Source: Klairet Levy, R. Interview to José Baroja. http://letras.mysite.com/jbar050923.html
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Responding to a question at his press conference (February 28, 1947); reported in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1947, p. 191
“I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
Ray Bradbury interview http://lists.topica.com/lists/gsn-newsday-list/read/message.html?sort=t&mid=911788456 March 23, 2005
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
As quoted in the Evening Herald in Dublin, Ireland (February 3, 1948), reprinted in Economic Council Letter, Issue 278, Part 397 (1952), p. 1807 https://books.google.com/books?id=qtAeAQAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=first+rate+Fabian <br class="br">1940s and later
Kwame Nkrumah (1909–1972) Pan Africanist and First Prime Minister and President of Ghana
Quoted in Asiaweek, Vol. 5 (1979), p. 28.
