“We would just really just exchange our ideas, and I started writing songs that I thought would really add to what we were doing. I would send him the lyrics for him. And then he’d incorporate some of my thoughts and ideas…. before you knew it, we had an album, and we had a book.” Dolly Parton on writing Run, Rose, Run with James Patterson on a special edition of NPT’s A Word on Words.
NPT Recommends
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free, high-quality books to children from birth to age five, no matter their family’s income.
Special thanks to honorary host Amy Williams
and the Ingram Content Group.
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Images of Dolly Parton provided by RCA Records,
Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
