When LaVette finished, Streisand turned to Townshend and said, "Fantastic!" Later, she asked if he had really written the song.
"Not just because he fought hard fights, but he did it in New York City, which people had really written off".
But, yes, it is the first time I've really written them.
Friends told me that Courtney Love was crazy and that everyone knew that Kurt Cobain had really written Live Through This.
Was it true, asked the Library of Congress, that Mr Selig had really written one book on Thomas Carew, a 17th-century love poet, and another on economic incentives for pollution control?
When you have written a draft of a book and told the story that you want to tell, it's the space in between, when you move away from it, that you start to see what you have really written.
In 1995, when Naomi Campbell's debut novel, Swan, failed to launch a lucrative franchise, the industry learned from the mishandling of the publicity about the identity of the woman who had really written the book, novelist Caroline Upcher.
When you feel that you've really written something good that expresses who you are and it gets rejected, you begin to wonder if you are in the right business".
If I had really written what Wilentz says I wrote, I'd owe him an apology.
