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"Certainly, writing a book was challenging. It took me a long time to learn how to do it. It took me ..." — Rodney Crowell

Certainly, writing a book was challenging. It took me a long time to learn how to do it. It took me seven years to get a sense of how to wean myself off the process and trickery of songwriting. You realize that giant metaphors work in songs because you have so few words. Standing alone on a page, they threaten to be overblown in a hurry.
Rodney Crowell
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