"I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together."

Beginning, End

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"I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a beginning, a middle, and an end that would tie everything together."

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"In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season."

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"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."

Work

"The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show."

Love

"No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you."

Word

"If you don't have a story that will hold the audience, you won't have a successful show."

Success

"I don't care how good a song is - if it holds back the storyline, stalls the plot, your audience will reject it."

Care

"A rhyme doesn't make a song."

Music

"The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother."

Society

"I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing."

Men

"In a show or a movie, one must work with many people. Many women just don't have the time for it."

Time

"A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy."

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