Not a Scholar

"I am not a scholar. I'm just a writer who loves to write and will always write. Scholars are very hard workers. I think I'm rather lazy... If I get excited about something, or if something happens out in the street... I want to report it and record it. I will go inside myself, bring out what I feel, put it on paper, look at it, pull out all of the cliches and nuttiness... I will work on those things. I will work hard in that way. But scholarship--pooh, pooh." -Gwendolyn Brooks