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We teach young kids from 8 to 14 or 15 about their musical heritage through great songs written by American songwriters. We don't do too many modern composers, although we include songs from Billy Joel and other writers like him. ↗

— Margaret Whiting

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I write to understand as much as to be understood. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

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The classical writers... playwrights, Jacobean, Elizabethan playwrights, all showed areas of all classes and how they live and painted them pretty authentically. ↗

— Timothy West

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When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much. ↗

— Timothy West

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Although, my experience when I've been depressed, not only am I too depressed to sit down and write a song, I'm too depressed to pick up my feet. So if you can at least write about it, you're halfway away from it. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

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Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

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The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

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Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. ↗

— E. B. White

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