I thought Little Women was quite possibly the worst book ever written. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

All the sweet innocence of the world was written there in the lines of her young face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And perhaps that might be the way to write this book—to open the page and to let the stories crawl in by themselves. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She included a copy of the George Gey tribute written by McKusick and Jones, saying she thought Lawrence would like to see an article about his mother’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

But first, I had to write this all down. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This isn’t camp life, no sir! It’s military barrack life!” wrote one boy in a letter to his parents. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“And she...agreed to that? Not to write me and tell me she was leaving?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He writes her letters and sends her photographs of artwork for her scrapbook. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Ma writes to Theo that she and Pa received “a very grim letter from him.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Both Haldeman and Henry seem to have an idea—which I think is mistaken—that even if we fail in Vietnam we can still survive politically,” the president wrote in his diary. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“They are the most ferocious fish in the world,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

‘Crunchy’ would be a good word to write in your web.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Modesty is a virtue,” he would later write, “yet one gets further without it.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

I wonder if they’re working on their books, Esteban finding the English words for his dad as he writes what he sees. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Why did all those societies fail to acquire writing, despite their sharing prerequisites with societies that did do so? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Diallo was innocent, curious, and terrified—and every one of those emotions must have been written all over his face. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

If there’s anything you still want to discuss, please write, because it’s easier for me to say what I mean on paper than face-to-face. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

He wrote a bunch of numbers on the board, and Sra. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He didn’t seem like he was writing from prison. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I write the name of the person and a one-word biography!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I either need to write a new song or find a song that I’ve already written. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“We fired a volley for a brave and loyal soldier who had died doing his duty,” Roosevelt wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

This was the shortcoming of Omnictionary: the stuff written by Radar was thorough and extremely helpful; the unedited work of skunk- butt left something to be desired. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Wait. What? Ronan...how could your mom write a letter? That doesn’t really sound...Well, I don’t know...” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Gold writing kept dashing across it as though an invisible giant’s hand were scrawling upon the blackboard and then wiping it off again; watching it, Harry saw that it was flashing advertisements across the field. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then he said: ‘There’s just one more thing. In a month or two I’ll send you my address and you write and tell me for sure whether you’re all right.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

By the time she had written Charlotte is dead, journal time was over. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Thus “history” was well under way by the time writing could be used to record events. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab my sticky notes and write “DAD! Buy a new tape player!” and stick it on the back of my door to remember to tell him — again. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Be good, sweet child,” she had written, “and let who will be clever.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

No big deal, NBD, Dwyer wrote in beer on the wooden slats of the back porch with the nozzle from the keg. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Why, the other day he even saw Grandpop write a list of things he needed from the grocery store in a notebook. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

During the summer of 1855, Professor Calvin Stowe, Mrs. Stowe’s husband, wrote: The drama of Uncle Tom has been going on in the National Theatre of New York all summer with most unparalleled success. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the time being, however, the guardians of usage frown very deeply on anyone writing “quarto’s”. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Around the author’s name she wrote: Born here? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He wanted to write urgent love letters to her all day long and crowd the endless pages with desperate, uninhibited confessions of his humble worship and need and with careful instructions for administering artificial respiration. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Klein ran a consulting firm in Ohio and wrote a book called Sources of Power, which is one of the classic works on decision making. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I wrote once more, and again there was no response. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew the name and address, because Momma had made her write it down four times, on each paper bag, in case something happened: Mrs. Cilla Logan, 1724 Ocean Drive, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

How can the same guy who took those photos of me and wrote those notes to me be making out with another girl on the other side of this door? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Mostly, though, she writes about things that she misses and things she longs for, as if she ignores the present to dwell on the past and future. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was a popular story in its day and brought attention to cryptograms and secret writing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Why did she write it, why did she bother? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m writing it on my last sheet of stationery. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Thus Mozart, an Austrian writing largely Italian-flavoured music, thought of himself as a natural successor to Handel, a German trained in Italy who settled in Britain. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I can't imagine what fills your days so that you don't have time to write to an old friend. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

“He has a paper to write,” Theresa reported to Old Chao. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He promised to write often, but I longed for dearer words from him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Panic must be written all over my face, because Anna purses her lips. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The writing was in his fine careful hand, in the black ink from the bottle in the cupboard at home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see,” he says, and goes back to his writing. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She reaches into her purse and pulls out a small white envelope with Lucinda written on it in happy, shouty colors. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

The report she wrote took up four sheets of the special India paper she used, even cramming her writing as tightly as she could and using a super-sharp hard pencil. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

So she wrote down my last question, too, with a sigh. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lupita sent her mother twenty dollars the day after Christmas, writing that half came from herself, half from Salvador. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

For instance, although he can understand his mother tongue, and speak it fluently, he cannot read or write it with even modest proficiency. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I once wrote to a significant minority of the Forbes 400, a list of the four hundred richest Americans, asking for $25,000 in support for a project I was working on at the time. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four of them had written a letter together begging Marina to help them become combat pilots, and they joined the 122nd Air Group together. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Someday I’ll write more about how much I miss her, but I don’t want to make myself feel sad. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I was selected as valedictorian of my class and assigned to write a paper to be delivered at one of the public auditoriums. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jones sat with one hand resting on his knee, the other on his writing pad. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

That night I tried to write the mini journal for Mr. Birkway. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I cannot write this,” said Auntie Lindo with a stubborn look. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He write this on paper and nail paper to post close to sidewalk. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sure you are wondering about the activities I wrote of earlier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Malcolm X had written on the reverse side, “One hundred years after the Civil War, and these chimpanzees get more recognition, respect and freedom in America than our people do. Bro. Malcolm X. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

How alive was her writing though, how full of force. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I try my best to answer the questions written on the Smart Board. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Which is exactly why I am writing all of this down. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

He gave their address directly to the bookseller and then wrote them a letter of apology for disclosing their address. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to learn to write, which was ultimately, still, as my mother had taught me, a confrontation with my own innocence, my own rationalizations. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I don't regret writing the letter in the least, but I regret signing it. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Even writing out the she saids, the and them, made her wince, and she felt foolish, appearing to know about the emotions of an imaginary being. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

"We have found the most splendid fool," he wrote Cressen, a fortnight before he was to return home from his fruitless mission. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I went back into the room and got this daybook from the closet, this book that is nearly out of pages, I brought it to him and wrote, “I don’t speak. I’m sorry.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I returned to the chapter I had written nearly two years before at Harvard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In science, we watch a documentary about Rachel Carson, the conservationist who wrote a book called Silent Spring. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

She melts a bit around the edges and writes back. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Is someone going to write it all down? She says, ‘I think Captain Underpants is really funny, too.’ The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Jacobs wrote on the blackboard, Hazel would lean forward, trying to catch some glimpse of Jack-like movement in the hallway. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I want to write an end to this. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Next, I’m writing a few sports articles for the newspaper. Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite Houseman’s skill in writing short stories and theatre scripts, he had no experience with radio. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The cap’n said, “Ooh, that there’s some good writing. I wonder who helped him?” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

She woke up his computer and wrote a story. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

And he knew that if he’d written or called me, Mom and Dad would find out where he was, fly out there, and try to bring him home.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cave and write Levi’s name in pencil. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

That night I wrote in my diary: Dear God, Please walk with Ernie in the graduation line at Central. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

For each note on the first line, write a rest of the same length on the second line. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When I’d had my fill of discussing cake flavors and party dresses, I got up and walked over to where Little Jimmy was writing in his notebook. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m teaching a unit on journalism,” said Mr. Larson, “and some of the kids in the class have started a newspaper—sort of as a project. It’s good writing, don’t you think?” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Arthur did so; he sent a full refund to each customer who canceled, and a personal note written in a cordial style. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Do you want a written affidavit, feces face?” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

This man—his last name was Bauby—wrote the whole book by having a friend recite the alphabet to him, and when she came to the letter he wanted, he would blink that left eye. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Swiftly, they worked out that the letters were written in two different book ciphers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“She wrote that you are fine and that you won’t be coming home for the time being. Did you see your father’s appeal in the newspaper?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, my dear brothers can you not see the deep laid scheme of the clergy against us as lecturers?” she wrote in a letter to two abolitionist leaders. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I used to write them down, but I don’t anymore. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Archaeologists already knew their dates of construction, usually from written records; the scientists wanted to compare their estimates to the known dates. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She’d write and write and get it done quickly so the dream could come true. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And also where you wrote “I won’t be myself when I reach you.” When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Other aunts, mothers- in-law, and cousins disappeared; some suddenly began writing to us again from communes or from Hong Kong. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they could help?...or your kind and loving mom and dad could please help me if possible please, I wrote to finish the sentence and hopefully take the pressure off my dear friend. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“That book wasn’t even written until a century after slavery was abolished.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“She went to her final sleep most tranquilly, most sweetly at twelve o’clock today’ Dr. Gully had written up the cause of death as a “Bilious Fever with typhoid character!’ Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote letters so persuasive that the directors of his divinity school looked favorably on readmitting him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Where they write letters home about wonderful food and mythical trees? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Are you saying you’ll publish it? If I can write it by—” “I said nothing of the sort,” she snaps. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

We don’t even have to write the order up. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I’ll write a note tonight, but you can basically tell him that Jeffrey hasn’t been vomiting as much, and his CNS seems fine. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out my notepaper to write a letter to my sister Hilda. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had written a note for Fritz to take, but it had been hard to think of anything to say, and she knew it wasn’t really anything Mr. Chris wouldn’t know already. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I pick the book back up but I don't say anything more about how hopeless it is, me trying to write stuff down, because I don't want to set off the telemetry. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

While aboard the train, Burnham wrote a letter to Olmsted that contained a less-than-candid description of the meeting with the architects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Well, then later that night, the teenager comes back with Mom and Dad, and they pick up a car, and it’s the other salesperson that writes them up.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Fernanda, writing letters to her children, was not aware of the unchecked destructive attack. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The best course seemed tentatively to accept the offer, and in mid-October he wrote Harker that he would come to Brooklyn in the fall of the following year. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

But the notes of the two scales will have different names, the scales will look very different when written, and musicians may think of them as being different. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Lisa had written a much longer note addressed to 'the Housekeeper', and it was this letter Miss Kenton brought into my pantry on the morning following their disappearance. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

He was tired of fishing, and bored with retirement, when he set out to learn to read and write. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only does he write letters to his Charlotte, he’s also carrying on a chatty correspondence with various other people. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

While I waited for the shower to shut off, I thought about writing a new novel. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But only once, almost eight months after he had left, did he write to Úrsula. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Teresa—what about the thing you wrote on your arm? The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

If Bobby had any trepidation about permanently severing his relationship with the United States, there was no evidence of it in the renunciation he wrote. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“They will put a machine in the marketplace instead. The machine will write the letters well enough, but the words the machine writes will have no elegance and no heart.” Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She appeared in the doorway of our room while Lily was writing in her journal and I was working on my novel. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But he hates writing anything down, except for his drawings. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They kept notes on the case, which were used to write the daily bulletins issued to the press. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Good teachers—not fancy electronic gadgets—to teach them to read and to write. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't keep up my old habit of writing down my ideas for novels because it seemed unnecessary. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

He wants to make one for himself, but doesn’t know what to write on it, so I help him. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was where she wrote journal entries about memorable book hunts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“In fact, I can hardly remember what I wrote about at all.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Just knowing I’d be going to Monet’s to write poetry made the days more bearable. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

He wrote fewer than a hundred words over the month that followed. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

During those chaotic years, as the basic functioning of Kim Jong Il’s government stalled, think tank experts in the West were writing books with doomsday titles such as The End of North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

This wasn’t what I wrote in my outline. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This was all foreign writing. It didn’t say anything.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

All this time, Master Williams was busy writing in different folders on her desk. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I recite the line of silver Hebrew writing embossed on the blue-and-white silk. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

If summer was a book then I was going to write something beautiful in it. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

I'm making this journal a letter to Baba, writing as though he'll be waiting for me with open arms at the airport. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the Post-its are in his handwriting, but others have been written by friends. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Your full Christian names and address, Madame. Perhaps you would prefer to write them yourself?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

But don’t overdo it, or your writing will sound monotonous. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just writing down all the things I love about Jesus. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I slipped another twenty dollars into the envelope and wrote that I hoped it would cover costs until my parents could figure things out. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He turned away from me and began to write in his ledger. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Why was its printing method invented around 1700 B.C. in Crete and not at some other time in Mesopotamia, Mexico, or any other ancient center of writing? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"The earth,” wrote the pioneering fire ecologist Edward V Komarek, "born in fire, baptized by lightning, since before life’s beginning has been and is, a fire planet.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I opened my journal and wrote down the name of the book. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

If I write about that, and talk about it out loud to Djo, maybe he will hear, and maybe just the sound of a voice will draw him back. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First of all, we appreciate the time you took to write down all of the reasons why you want to do this. It tells us how important this is to you.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

They wrote that Welles and the entire Mercury team had been completely surprised by the public’s reaction. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I tried, Tex, see? Had Beatrice write a letter, telling ’em about the owls and all. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The conventions of written prose represent a similar standardization. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

‘Why don’t you start by writing a book about you and me?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could reach him always, he wrote, through his bankers. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I wrote it the same day a group of students got angry that someone had the nerve to ask for help regarding suicide. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Finally I got up the nerve to write her a letter about becoming a psychology and literature major. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

When I finished Mom was looking into her lap, and Mrs. Jarzab was writing furiously on a pad. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote her a letter every day she was gone and left them in her mailbox. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“Just like last time. You guys know the drill. We need to write down the first letters of every title.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

I think of the phone and the notebook, the message I wrote for my new friend, the messages she wrote for herself. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe Miles is not the one writing me messages. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Combined with wedge-shaped cuneiform writing, scene after scene of these wall carvings scrupulously detail military exploits. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z

She arranged her writing supplies on the desktop and opened her leather-bound journal to a blank page. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ve wished 100 times that we had gotten married when we were at Phoenix,” he wrote to her, “but I wouldn’t ask you now to come out here + live in a dump like Ephrata.” Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

He wrote: “Distraction during the appearance of the stimulus is always punished with the prolongation of the process,” notes a biography published by the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour in the Netherlands. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I sighed as I wrote out a math problem, nimbly holding the pencil between my toes. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She had written the final post only days ago, trailed by two hundred and seventy-four comments so far. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mine is at my typewriter writing pithy things I’ll never have the guts to say out loud. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He pult a pencil from behind his ear and wrote something down. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

After her letter to me, I’d written her back describing how life in the U.S. was different, but nice. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

My chance of winning was so small there was no point in arguing over who wrote the better poem. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I write home about how I’ve made it to the big time, with my hot new railroad slave and all the fancy people I rub elbows with. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I peeked around the door, and when I saw my teacher writing out an equation on the chalkboard, I ducked in without her seeing me and grabbed a desk in the last row. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“If I did not study music,” he wrote, “there would be no Macintosh computers.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Miss Rat-pup read the quote, nodding solemnly, and wrote underneath, The book of Luke. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure! You could write a book about Manuel Escobar! And that would leave things out, too! You could write ten books! You could never stop writing!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But even now when I reread it, I’m amazed at how current it feels, like it was written yesterday. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

As Baachan headed out of the office, Hanako felt a pang of worry over how bad her Japanese reading and writing were. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Here in Paris the best milk one can get is a veritable poison,” he writes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t have come here when she was Loo’s age, or she wouldn’t remember her mommaloo so well or be able to write so prettily. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

It is my intention to write shortly and desire her to come to me at Madeira. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was holding a long sheet of paper dense with writing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

After his class, I decided to write down double-digit multiplication tables on postcards and memorize them while I worked. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I looked at the wall where all our birthdays were written on cake-slice cutouts. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Skinny Delivery Boy, you are talking to a very old woman who doesn’t think much good music has been written since Ludwig van Beethoven finished his Ninth Symphony.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The three people writing at first merely nodded, without glancing up. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Children wrote to us saying they look up to us and adults encouraged us to keep going. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You will not write again to this boy or accept his letters,” she said sternly from the doorway. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“But while he was in Lansing you wrote him frequently. Or so the Kansas authorities tell us,” Nye said. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the other side of it, a thin man with big ears was writing in a black book. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I write when I need school supplies or a ride to the mall. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The things people wish for! The craziness! Last year someone wrote I wish for chocolate spaghetti. In permanent marker. On a pair of underwear. Tossed it way up high.” Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Or maybe I didn't write back? I can't remember because that was like forever ago.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

My daughter Kathleen tells me it’s an obsession, that I should write about a little girl who finds a million dollars and spends it all on a Shetland pony. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was written by one of my favorite authors, Linda Sue Park. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Was I supposed to write down what he said? Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Maybe you could even write this story someday.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I know the writing part can be a challenge for you, Stella,” Mrs. Grayson said. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then I said, "Of course I know, Buddy. You wrote it." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The andante—the third movement—is his favorite, he explains, because he read once that it was written to evoke the image of a castle in ruins, which he found darkly funny at the time. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The commands of the monarchs and merchants who organized colonizing fleets were conveyed in writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Addie and I agree to get together Tuesday night to write the speech. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What am I going to write to him?” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you going to do with the article I wrote?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Remember what happened to your own mosque. And the things those kids wrote on the walls.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was a kind of writing I always destroyed afterward. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Pike will have to be located and apprehended,” Agent Burger wrote. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Some of the kids talk about them in their videos, so I started reading them. And once I did, I couldn’t stop, because some of them felt like they were written to me.” A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I could never have imagined Margo’s anger at being found, or the story she was writing over. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Which man of honour,” I wrote, “will desert a lifelong friend at the insistence of a common opponent and still retain a measure of credibility with his people?” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of Clayton’s classmates were neatly writing “predestined” in their notebooks. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

When she heard the news, she wrote to her supporters. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Tucked into the pages, I see my report card from last year when the teacher wrote I have potential. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several years later, Dr. Reyburn wrote that the surgeons were wrong about the bullet's path, but “no different course of treatment could have saved his life.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He began to write down the thoughts that came into his head. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He wrote that he and Danny got into a terrible fight at the wrecking yard. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

What if I wrote “Great” next to “Ramallah” when I send my letter? Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“They can write anything they want. It doesn’t mean squat. This is America. Everything’s for sale.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I figured out after our last two chats how you keep asking me questions so that I'll ramble on, and then you don't have to write so much. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We have to hurry home. I must write—no, telephone—the Duryea factory in Massachusetts and place an order at once. The internal combustion engine. Think of it! The power of four horses!” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Lourdes doesn’t know or care what her husband is writing, or to whom. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only toward the end of my schooling and only because political issues pressed upon me did I write, and have published in magazines, essays intended for readers I never expected to meet. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you got a sweetie that can write?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote to Harry Codman, who was himself ill with a strange abdominal illness, “I can only conclude now that I am older and more used up than I had supposed.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Part of the writing is taking stock of everything in my life, like I’m running down a checklist: Amazing girlfriend—check. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I’ll write the same kind of notes to the library that you wrote when you sent me for books,” I told him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several people who wrote letters recounted how they sniffed out the hoax. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Guy who wrote five or six books Sierra could tell you about.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Then she used a blue crayon to write on one of the petals: “My family.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“I shall always receive your commands with pleasure,” Madison wrote to Jefferson in 1794, “and shall continue to drop you a line as occasions turn up.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

I just looked inside, and there, at the head of the room, writing stuff on the board, was Ms. Griegson. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

They do allow writing instruments in the rec room, but they are under constant guard by the pastels. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I hope you will write, by the thousands, to museum officials, to newspapers, to those in power. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Hahn wrote to Meitner at her new office in Sweden, describing the strange results of his experiment. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But on the way, you need to stop at the mall and buy a cassette of Frog and Toad Together\\>y Arnold Lobel. It’s very important. Are you writing this down?” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Funny how a book he didn’t write has more of a future than he does. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I wrote calligraphy pen and bottle of ink. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I should get someone who knows writing to read it. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

It is a common consequence, written about in the medical literature under such titles as “Cognitive Effects of Childhood Leukemia Therapy” and “Disruption of Learning Processes by Chemotherapeutic Agents.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Some also wrote new songs in a "folk" style that enjoyed some popularity, particularly in the 1960's. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

They were talking about letters that morning because Calder had groaned about having to write a thank-you note, and said that it was always a waste of time. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He doubted that she had ever written him anything at all, except for the generic Love, Kainene, on his birthday cards. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I ate food if I was hungry; but mostly I wrote in my journal or read a book. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

He strutted to the board like he was the coolest thing since sliced bread and wrote it for the class. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

They will be like the speech I tried to write to honor Rue and Thresh in District 11. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Another month went by without incident, and then Billy wrote a letter to the Ilium News Leader, which the paper published. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later that night before I sobbed into my pillow, I wrote: Please, God, let me learn how to stop being a warrior. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I just told them to start from scratch; if you write honestly, the hero will emerge.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s your address, so I can write and tell you where we are?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then we wrote the tract of their lives, remote, unauthorized biographies. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or if I had a stamp I could write to Joe Louis and say, Dear Joe, Is there any chance you could tell me where you got your powerful shoulders even though you were poor? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

In all of my previous examples of bad writing I picked on easy marks: deadline-pressured journalists, stuffy academics, corporate hacks, the occasional inexperienced student. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I wrote a poem for your abuela, telling her how much I loved her. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I’d write a few entries in a single week and then lay the journal down for a month or sometimes more. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"Did you do everything Kim said? Keep his bandages clean and all that stuff? She wrote you a list, right?" When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“Had he next proceeded to remove his head in the same mysterious way I should not have been further surprised,” Mudgett wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

When I finished all the Verne books in the library, I became the first in line for any book that arrived written by modern science-fiction writers such as Heinlein, Asimov, van Vogt, Clarke, and Bradbury. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

This family saga is extremely well written, but the parts dealing with war, writers and the emancipation of women aren’t very good. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She sees how hard it is for me to write lying flat on my back in bed. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I would be one of those wise slaves who could read and write and dare to advise their masters. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m writing them all down in my notebook, too, because why not? The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Now we might give equal prominence to biology, but they were writing before the discovery of the structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I wrote names and phrases that I thought would jog him into speaking again. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The Jackson Five concert is in December. That’s four months from now. So when Papa gives us our allowance, you write how much money you’re putting in by your name next to ‘week number one.’ P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“After just one post? What did you write? I didn’t even read it before you posted it,” she says, sounding concerned. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

My class went through the routine of settling down, scraping chairs, dusting desks, copying the new term timetable written on the board. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That was you? I thought maybe it was E.J. who wrote that.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

On that newfangled but soon-to-be obsolete machine I wrote not so much like a kid from the Midwest as a minister’s daughter from Shropshire. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“He was alone,” as James Joyce wrote of Stephen Dedalus, his artist as a young man. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

No one wrote a sappy letter like that unless they were. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Will the reader please take into consideration that this story was written before the writer’s fury had cooled? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Before he started reading, he wrote a note: Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Odyssey speaks of “the divine for which all men long,” and hundreds of years later Aristotle wrote, “Excellence, much labored for by the race of mortals.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In letters to Look’s editors, people wrote, I want to cancel my subscription to your magazine at once. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh! Miss Woodhouse, what a pity that I must not write this beautiful charade into my book! I am sure I have not got one half so good.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

His answer is written there in black ink. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He has to write down facts not a lot of bloody poetry, which is all you hear in Limerick with men in pubs going on about our great sufferings under the English. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There was a scratch on the page and a splash of ink, and then it went on in pencil, but the writing was different. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Smiling, he looked down at his hands—as if remembering the day when they had begun to write Basta’s story. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I even wrote notes beforehand to help guide my argument. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

She went to rallies, wrote letters to him in prison, and collected money for his legal defense. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Nadia said, "I have always wanted to write like that. You can teach me, too." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

"One paper stands out from the rest. It is written by a young man who has the gift of interpretation." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

I read her this poem I wrote called “Dream” about doing hip-hop with my own band, and she started crying. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Relief swooped through the crowd like the news of a snowstorm on the morning when a report not yet written was due. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t write about that, of course. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Two children, with jackets and ribbons and birthdays written down. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He wrote to her every Diwali and sent her a greeting card every New Year. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I can imagine you lying on a carpet somewhere listening to it, eating Oreos, and maybe writing in a journal. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

And one of the main reasons I write is to ask questions and figure things out for myself. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

So instead, I made the only promise that I knew I could keep: that I would always write back, no matter what. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

If she could have just one back, it would be the kelly-green V-neck with Lonely Hearts Club written across it in curly script, after an old Beatles song. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I instantly developed respect for the author because of his unique style of writing, not to mention the fact that he didn’t throw in some stupid preachy message. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Also, he wrote short pamphlets and distributed them in the streets. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He’d sent me a couple of texts, but I hadn’t written back. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

When they send me to bed, I write a runaway note and leave it on my desk. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

One of the things I always write about is what I observed about Yolanda’s hair. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Below her own name she wrote another word. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

After I wrote this out I slowly escorted Miss Volker down the grassy back path to her house. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes. I’ve read all about their exploits, and if half of what they say is true, why it must be marvelous. But why do you ever want to write to them?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote my grandmother that I had watched a Chinese magician swallow three yards of fire. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had been “initiated into an entirely new province of knowledge,” he wrote glowingly to Darwin. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

One of those was a major writing assignment—an essay on the importance of friendship. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I trusted Merriam because I thought, instead of having children she didn’t want, she wrote the dictionary. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the back of a card slip for two bottles of wine, I write down a list of most likely possible explanations for the disappearance of Megan Hipwell: 1. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

One umbrella, pink, had written upon it, “We Serve Valentine Ice-Cream.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was clear that someone else—probably Johanna—had written the statement and that he had been compelled to read it to defuse the situation. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But the written word is a recent invention that has left no trace in our genome and must be laboriously acquired throughout childhood and beyond. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

One shelf held nothing but writing tools: quills, parchment, bottles of ink, and several boxes with probably more of the same inside. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“You wrote a musical when you were twelve?” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Enough writing has survived to give, when coupled with archaeological studies, a vivid picture of Nudzahui life. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Mrs. Cameron isn’t the final judge. Mr. Lemoncello is. And since he’s a genius, he will definitely pick the essays you guys all wrote.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“I did, but if I started another one, I’d want it to be different. Not just the silly stuff, but also real thoughts, real writing, real life. ” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was able to write to our people in Lusaka that Mr. de Klerk seemed to represent a true departure from the National Party politicians of the past. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They reached the shanty, Burnham wrote to Margaret, “just in time to hear Col. Rice tell some yarns about the war and life in the plains among the scouts and Indians.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Both girls were writing on their work sheets. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

This book has therefore been deliberately written in opposition to certain conventions which have become established in ‘these postmodern days’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Teddy asked, writing a note on his papers. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the ghost of Hamlet's father appeared upon the balcony and beckoned him, I gasped and shuddered but kept on writing. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“How come she’s writing so much? She needed a good bath, that girl.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What then? Do we always just write it off as an accident?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’ve intentionally termed these three approaches strategies rather than writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I said yes, and he asked if I would write an article about my first morning at Central. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Sister said it would be good to write to you, but after everything—I don’t know. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

How many separate times did writing evolve in human history, under what circumstances, and for what uses? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had written a critical review of The Origin in the Quarterly Review, using some arguments supplied to him by Owen. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was like you, Ernest, and very sweet, that you should whisper to me so comforting words about the Wednesday meeting,” Oppenheimer wrote him a few days later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I tried not to sound resentful, after the way she’d written me off in the council, but I guess I didn’t hide it very well. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Although I was interested in what she wrote, so much that I memorized most of it, I still do not know why she wrote it to me. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

So I wrote the unvanquished truth stuff down and then kept on going, for months and months, until it was spring again, and the world was really and truly green all over. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could think of nobody to write to. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I have come to think of myself as engaged in writing graffiti. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Einstein was writing equations on the chalkboards of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

As soon as his mom let go of him, Park went to his room and wrote Eleanor a letter. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He was delighted with the harbor and wrote: “Not a port in the universe could afford more conveniences.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You got to go away. My brothers say I should write my own book. But I ain’t a writer. I’m sorry.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Ignatius was writing in one of his Big Chief tablets. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kitty Now, that letter seemed strange at first because it was written to Mack but it was never sent to him. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Actually he was not used to writing by hand. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Lieutenant Wilkin conducted a brainstorming session with us in which he wrote on a big art pad our suggestions for improving CO training. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was writing an article for a medical journal on “The Mediterranean Diet.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was only writing love letters, I thought. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I know something of Mr. Lloyd; I shall write to him; if his reply agrees with your statement, you shall be publicly cleared from every imputation; to me, Jane, you are clear now.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mother wrote letters to Papa, even though she had no idea where to send them. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

She wrote carefully on the paper: I’m going to find you. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

For a while, I required the girls to write up a little report after each visit, summarizing what they had learned, though eventually they started protesting and I let the idea go. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She took Wednesday’s forty-five dollars and insisted on writing him out a receipt for it in wide, looping handwriting, on the back of an expired soft-drink coupon. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

By now I had nearly a shoe box full, just waiting for Lyrics Unlimited to write and demand all that I could deliver. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

In it, Lillian wrote, “I heard daddy died in a fire,” and she asked if it was true. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Simon Cordoba, a boy of fifteen, has written a number of short stories considered to be antirevolutionary. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not secrets. I’m writing about things I’ve been thinking about.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

"He's written about all the things he knows, and now he's on all the things he doesn't know." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Here’s the thing: I was probably gonna write a book when I got older anyways. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It was better to announce my engagement by letter than to wait until I returned home, as thus I might draw the hottest fire while still in safe harbor,” she wrote in her autobiography. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I came upstairs after dinner to write out my account of the crime for Sergeant Rojas. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look forward to sharing my writing, and no longer imagining myself as the “starving artist.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Separating himself out led to confidence and a sense of superiority that itself felt like an achievement, he writes. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Later, Ugwu wrote a list of food items and gave it to Master. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You need to learn your letters before you can write. You need to learn the fingerings on the strings before you play and sing.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He read other people’s ideas, not only those of Malthus, but also of Adam Smith, who had written in the previous century about free-market economics and capitalism. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first, I’d wanted to write Merry Christmas on the box somewhere, but I decide against it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“To tell her how upsetting what she wrote was,” Summer answered. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“And he’s the same man who wrote that book, right?” Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Otherwise the demons would write down the last word they heard, so that I would be called Mister Shadow instead of Mister Lee. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote to Mami accusing her of turning his children against him. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She didn’t yet have the drafting skills to make an architectural drawing, but instead submitted simple sketches and pastel drawings, along with a written description. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I find her at her computer where she’s supposed to be writing a book but instead is staring up at the ceiling like it’s full of stars. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It was like getting beaten by a zombie, I write. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I slipped my notebook into the open slot for books and then looked at the teacher who was standing, her back to us, writing on the blackboard. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who else among royalty, in his time, would have had the giant talent to write Shakespeare’s works? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around and realize that everyone is writing. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She knew she was improving in her writing. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Emma was not asking Charles to believe in everything as it was written in the Bible. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought I knew what she meant, so in my next composition I wrote about the lesson I learned from reading the story. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

"Never mind, just write down the prices of our stocks as they cross the tape like I'm doing. Once school opens it's all up to you." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I sent him a picture of my—thigh, I guess? I was wearing shorts and I wrote . . . something on it.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even now, Dedd hears her sister, reciting that poem she wrote in jail, her voice raspy with the cold she never got rid of that last year. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have myself a hard time writing, and it tire me out sumpin’ awful. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

If rhythms are not written as triplets, the tempo marking usually includes an indication to 11swing11, or it may simply be implied by the style and genre of the music. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Calder was impressed by Petra’s writing, and wished it were his own. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Say rather, I should not be; for I have my letter to Satis House to write, before I go to sleep.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby felt that this victory was significant enough to write to Collins about. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Darius inhales and says, “So you read that boyfriend of yours and decided to ignore the writing on the wall.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Pretend I sit writing at his pretty little eighteenth-century marquetry table every afternoon. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Yes, and by the way, she also said she’s had a piece of writing turned down by Cyril Connolly at Horizon. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He needed to write a poem about little fishes. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Charles’s long-range goal was to write the huge book he had intended from the beginning, including all the material and evidence he had amassed and would continue to amass about evolution by natural selection. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In some communities a Negro’s right hand was mutilated if he learned to read and write. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on August 15, Emma wrote, “halfway now I think from symptoms.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I reserve the right to generalize,” Bobby wrote about his penchant for stereotyping. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Not what I wrote you, of course, just that he would grow more secure as he got older. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

At least ask me to write a real essay.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then she asks if any of us wrote down words that describe our ethnicity. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

It is thus easy to think that one could write history from Galileo’s point of view. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

"They’re really not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors," he wrote in the New York Times in an article that stings yet. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Most children,” they wrote, will deceive in certain situations and not in others. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As coveted as his shells were, Pocock had begun to find himself struggling to stay in business, reduced to writing plaintive letters to coaches around the country, pleading for orders. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

We made our government write new laws to alter some of the cruelest injustices that affected us. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to write home for the money I need and go back as soon as I can.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What Chartres was to the Gothic cathedral,” wrote Thomas Talmadge, a Chicago architect and critic, “the Montauk Block was to the high commercial building.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She wished she had brought her notebook to write it down. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So that means my mother was bom an Adams and she was still an Adams when she wrote her name in that book. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote out an itinerary so they could follow us. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

For example, why did no traditional hunters-gatherers evolve or adopt writing? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

His weakness was that he never wrote down what was ordered or even listened very carefully. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Run up on me and get done up. My squad got more heat than a furnace,” I mumble as I write. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

At last, I wrote about the blackberry lass. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“Just forget us and write your name and address,” the teacher coaxed. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am dreading the days to come soon now when many beautiful birds will be dying in our back yard,” wrote a Milwaukee woman. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I am only writing this because it stops him burning me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It’s my writing, but I don’t remember printing this. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s scratched out her phone number and the addresses he’d written down for her at Oxford and in Maine. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Why did you choose to write the name of Prudence Cruff?” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, the old thing!” whispered the pigeon to himself, and he flew away quickly to find a piece of writing paper and a pencil. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

"There is now little doubt," Michael Coe, the Yale archaeologist, wrote in 1994, “that all later civilizations in Mesoamerica, whether Mexican or Maya, ultimately rest on an Olmec base.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I like to think he's working so hard that he can't write. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The two indisputably independent inventions of writing were achieved by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia somewhat before 3000 B.C. and by Mexican Indians before 600 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, without waiting for me to answer the question, he wrote “chartreuse” under “Favorite Color.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“It was worth a shot,” Safer says, writing in his notebook. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He had reports to read, letters to write. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I said again, gesturing toward the ticket, “It is written there.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dived is the traditional past tense for what Esther Williams did off a diving board, though authorities now accept dove in all but formal writing. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He writes her telephone number on a scrap of paper. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He opened his pocket and peered down at Frightful, thinking, I’ve written the utility-company manager so many times, my fingers hurt. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“But, Papa, you said it yourself, it’s in his heart. I’m just trying not to be the worst kid at writing in Mrs. Grayson’s class.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Char’s hand was large and round, the letters evenly spaced, each fully formed—completely unlike my crabbed, spiky writing. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

But this time I’m wise to her and I want to write. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“He made his notes with a manner as unconcerned as if he were sitting in his own office writing a business letter.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

To many traditionalists, Plato included, the age of the written word necessarily meant the end of a craft of oral transmission that had long nourished the Greek mind. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Downstairs, Dicey wrote a hasty note to James, asking him to take charge until she got back, telling him where she was going, saying she was sorry but he would have to tell Cousin Eunice. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ned said he didn’t get caught, so he must have written it somewhere he wasn’t supposed to. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I was sure information was in the words written underneath each picture in large black letters. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Sure. My wife and I write them a rent check every month.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Grabbing my sketchbook, I flip to a blank page and write words, bearing down so hard the letters cut into the page. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look at what Bob wrote, and I wonder: if Benjamin Franklin had his way, would Ms. Warner try to make everyone call me ish? Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“I wrote you a letter. I folded it into a star.” Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And I asked him if a deaf person could write music. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Luma gathered the newcomers, asked their names, and wrote them down on a sheet of paper. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“I hate the old chess and the old chess scene,” he wrote to a friend, making reference to his invention of Fischer Random. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There are no recorded Memories, but to my surprise, the gift receipt tells me that it was sent from Tremaine, with a single line written on the card. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m in a state of utter confusion, don’t know what to read, what to write, what to do. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

With each copy, he wrote a personal letter, geared to the recipient and to the fears Charles had about the recipients reaction. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I entered a civilian writing career in New York City, I collected, around Harlem, a good deal of provocative material and then proposed an article about the cult to the Reader’s Digest. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I wrote them a letter. I told them not to worry.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the beginning there were many leaves covered with Bilbo’s thin wandering hand; but most of it was written in Frodo’s firm flowing script. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

That morning, I wrote yet another letter that said, I’m really worried about you. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He wrote something in his book and held it up, but I couldn’t see it, so I ran back over. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It says to write down the story of what happened and everything that led up to it. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“They will give us a taste of fresh meat that we all crave,” Cherrie wrote in his diary. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Carefully, Enrique writes them down, one after another, on a shred of paper. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

When he complained to Emma, she wrote that she would come to help. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, a place, a room, a person—don’t worry about it too much. Just write whatever comes to mind.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I exclaimed, when I had read her letter: “I will write instantly and relieve them from the anxiety they must feel.” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanna tell Mrs. Fisher there’s no way I’m writing about “my favorite room in my house” when I have no house. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

There was an engraving of Shakespeare himself on the title page, and on the opposite page, in faded brown ink, someone had written, This hook belongs to Mabel Hatch. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

A reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle got hold of the story and wrote an article with the headline: “Forgetful Prof Parks Girl, Takes Self Home.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

What are we going to do? he wrote. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For example, millet cultivation, bronze technology, and writing arose in North China, while rice cultivation and cast-iron technology emerged in South China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In my answer I wrote that the quilt was almost done. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Younger children can learn musical concepts long before learning written notation. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Happy in my daydream, I cut and wrote, wrote and cut. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like a fairy tale when Ellen told it later to your grandmother, only it was a fairy tale written for and acted by a fashionable ladies’ club. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one’s ever written a book like this,” she say, finally whispering, finally starting to understand, I guess. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He has offered to drive you down to that spot I wrote you from so often—three miles north and west of Vida, Montana. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I have been feeling very clearheaded lately and what I want to write about today is the sea. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“What the hell have you been writing with this?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I want to write another note to this mysterious person, but it can wait until later. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

As for the Ainu, their distinctive appearance has resulted in more being written about the origins and relationships than about any other single people on earth. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

After my frustrating time of trying to write about my neighborhood the way I had seen other published authors write about theirs, I stopped writing for a while. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was a popular story in its day and brought attention to cryptograms and secret writing. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

And then she glanced at Ash and said curtly, “Go and fetch us some writing materials. We must respond immediately.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Boston Temple’s outstanding young Minister Louis X, previously a well-known and rising popular singer called ‘ ‘The Charmer, ’ ’ had written our Nation’s popular first song, titled “White Man’s Heaven is Black Man’s Hell.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also wrote, I’m so glad you’re back into school, but what about your siblings? I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I wrote so many things from my heart that I used up all the pages. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only to Frodo did he show the account of his Journey that he was writing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Explain a moment that changed your worldview, written in recipe format. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Write using lemon juice as ink, for instance, and the writing will be invisible. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naturally, wheels and writing aren’t directly linked to latitude and day length in the way crops are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their dad studied notes written on Post-its tacked to a bulletin board that asked, what’s the one book you always recommend? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

"Someone has written a book about the intelligence of animals. Border collies are smartest." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I watched her come—watched with the strangest anticipation; as though some word of doom were to be written on her disk. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He was accused of having been commissioned by the Communist Party to write the song. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One kid, the angry stain of blood on his T-shirt growing with every breath, watched calmly as the medic wrote up the tag. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had tried to write our names real big, but they still looked small, almost like nothing against all that white. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We take facts so much for granted that there have been few attempts to write their history, and none of them satisfactory. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“There’s going to be a pretty good horse race,” wrote the New York World Telegram, “until Seabiscuit flattens out like a rug at the sixteenth pole.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish I could indulge in writing about my bedroom, but I must stop early today so von Linden can prep me for this radio interview tomorrow. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

If I ever do decide to write your letter, which I probably wont, this is the story I would tell you. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I stepped to the lectern and began delivering the speech I had written in verse. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I think our baboons are like your squirrels, he wrote. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

These relations may be conveyed without even using a connective word: all the writer has to do is write the statements using parallel syntax and vary only the words that indicate the difference. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But there it was, written on paper, a huge SOS. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She’s amazing, I write back, adding long, curly hair to the smiley. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A little too nice a color for a writing thing. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I thought you might know why he wrote this, or maybe you might have heard from him.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

This was the view of most scientists: Einstein himself wrote a paper in which he claimed that stars would not shrink to zero size. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote down as much as I could of what she said, realizing that I could probably pull off my final reaction paper without actually reading the book. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The guy who wrote it was going to be tortured by the king. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when you write a check, the number you put in the little box gets subtracted from what you have. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Last year we were asked to write essays about freedom for a contest sponsored by our local Rotary Club for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To write? But...why? We get enough of that in school!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I am writing about those very things my mother has asked me not to reveal. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I click on the Sent folder, there it is: I have written to him, he just hasn’t replied. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

And underneath each picture, I’ve written our names in my neatest handwriting. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

In her decisive script, she wrote on them “important” and “save.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

She assigns us to write an acrostic of our names, which is a poem where, for each letter of your name, you describe yourself with a word or phrase that starts with that letter. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

When Robb wrote to the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, the bird that came back brought word that Uncle Benjen was still missing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Johnny White wrote, “We woke up all scared and having frequent visits with Alvin.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Five times she had written these words now, and still they weren’t enough. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And it looks like a normal page of writing and nothing is changing. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The doctors examined the animals and wrote in their little black books, in their big black books, and continued to trace red and black lines upon the charts. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It quickly became apparent to me,” he wrote, that. . . the prison warden, to be effective, would have to constitute himself not as an instrument of punishment but a firm, frank friend in need. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you will excuse me, Arthur, I have all these notes to write up.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote down the words that were in the upper left corner of his card: Chase and Freedom. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I don't know the words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Harry moved across to read it and saw that Umbridge had written, “To be punished.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Sweet. Let’s each start writing from there and see what we come up with. Then we can combine, share, whatever,” Tanasia says. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was about to write a kidnap note and she was worried about the cleanliness of her room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

My mother told me that whole books have been written about it. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He hangs upside down from the furniture like a bat,” his mother wrote. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” she said, “I don’t know that I’m an expert of anything. But one thing I can say is it’s sort of interesting that the person wrote the word ‘black’ in red pen.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were numerous grant proposals to write, and a piece on MDR-TB in Russia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It didn’t seem that I’d be using it for anything but writing Christmas cards. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

On the instrument sheet, I write one word: bass. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

From an early age I knew that my mother and father could read and write both Spanish and English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know I better keep the pencil moving, so I write the word “Why?” over and over from the top of the page to the very bottom. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

But limiting themselves to a small number of chords did not mean that the composers of the second half of the eighteenth century wrote simple music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As if there’s divine writing on the checkout slip or something. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many doctors took up the pen in order to write about their experiences during the plague, as well as to argue in support of whichever treatment they favored. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

He let Johnny have his rig and also wrote him a pass which would prevent any molestation from the Whig mobs and told Cilia to get a similar pass from the British soldiers. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Two facts were at once apparent,” Compton wrote later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“We had to write to check with the church registers. What the Nazi authorities were looking for, of course, were Jewish names.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Incredibly, some of the last inscriptions are gibberish, as if scribes had lost the knowledge of writing and were reduced to meaningless imitation of their ancestors. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

As precision of measurement improved, records had to be kept, so astronomy encouraged observation and mathematics and the development of writing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is now 2½ months since my beloved so suddenly departed this life,” she wrote to family and friends in late January 1970. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Every day, closeted in my stone cell, I write. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He pointed to where he had written Agree with me. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Armed with harmony, rhythm, a large palette of chords, and most importandy the ability to write all of these down, its most innovative sounds expanded rapidly throughout Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Vespucci helpfully explained that he was writing about the finding of a new world ‘of which our forefathers made absolutely no mention’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was a long letter from a former graduate student who wrote about her life after the university. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, when Sally a little hysterically wrote that this time was really it, he came, though minus the wife and kiddies. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet when I received Norman Bowker’s letter, it occurred to me that the act of writing had led me through a swirl of memories that might otherwise have ended in paralysis or worse. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same applies to any speech or extended piece of persuasive writing. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

“What was written on the Emerald Tablet?” the boy wanted to know. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d never ask her to write out her love and then let someone else read the letter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pictures her father missing a tooth, lost after a recent fall, her mother has written, on the stairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I found out how to contact Leanne,” Gay explained, “and then I wrote to Lorraine.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I start writing a list on a piece of notepaper as I talk. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Blackie added, “I wrote one note that I would not testify against him if he would get me out.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It all boiled down to this: Mr. Dussel had recommended the book to Margot and me as an example of excellent writing. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Dad wrote up about twenty-five or thirty questions like that and then insisted we rehearse the interview. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve just finished a fellowship at Princeton and for years I wrote an anonymous blog about race, which then became how I made my living, and you can read the archives here. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Well, they aren’t exactly keeping it a secret. Hickock’s written checks from one side of town to the other. Using his own name.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your book is about us living in all fifty states. We have a lot more to go before we’re done. If we stop now, you won’t be able to write your book.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I turn another sketchbook page and choose among the words written along the edge. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a letter in 1879, Charles wrote what he now believed about science and faith and how he had gotten there. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sneaking out here to write didn’t seem to be helping her writing in school anyway, she thought glumly, tucking her toes under the hem of her nightgown. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I am writing a new book of the land. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard that book was written anonymously,” is my quick answer, not sure I even want to act like I’ve read it. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I wrote to Albus, describing, perhaps insensitively, the wonders of my journey, from narrow escapes from chimaeras in Greece to the experiments of the Egyptian alchemists. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Marshall investigated a possible injunction to stop publication of the work since according to Bobby, Darrach had allegedly violated his contract: Supposedly, he’d agreed to write only articles about Bobby, not a book. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu borrowed those words months later, in a blog post written during the final, frenzied lap of the presidential campaign: “Even the Idea of Being Ready Is Ridiculous.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Prophase,” he agreed, writing it neatly in the first space on our worksheet. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

He lost his lawsuit against Koch when Houseman and Anne Froelick testified that Welles’s role in writing the original script had been minimal. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The letter goes on and on about how many people entered, and how they’re gonna put my writing on display in the library lobby for a whole month. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

You may be shocked to hear this, but my Farsi is at a first-grade reading and writing level. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

While I wrote and revised my speech, the Freedom Writers gave me constructive criticism. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe when you be typin’ on that machine of yours, you can write about that!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He has very little to say about any of the myths the Greek tragedians write of. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have already written my wife and mother telling them about the trouble last night. I have told them we have to leave the Tang people’s town.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, something must have happened because he right away wrote her name down asking was it ski or sky. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

They began the year by arguing about whether writing was the most accurate way to communicate. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The circles keep expanding,” adds Michael, picking up another marker, writing and drawing. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

The moment I began to write, the plot fell out, so to speak. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I will now read this poem of Mr. Blakeslee’s choosing. He wrote that he found it in a old book.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

By the beginning of September, he was able to write to Ky Ebright, down in Berkeley, in a tone markedly different from that of just a year before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe he should not have written brother, but like it or not, that was his position in life. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

From her pocket, Lina took the message that Doon had written, the one that was supposed to have gone to Clary, explaining everything. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She says, I’ll give you threepence for every letter you write and another threepence if it brings a payment. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The smears of blood on the wall looked like someone had been writing, and then rubbed it away. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I write him a private message: Please take that off your wall or edit out what you say at the end so no one else sees/hears it. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I also wrote other things I needed to learn for school and things I wanted to know by heart, like spelling words, and math and grammar rules. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you written to Parliament? They need the specifics of our difficulties.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reached for a piece of paper from Ms. Morales’s desk and started writing. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He also inquired whether Hoover would write a brief introduction. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"Black people knew that education was important,” wrote one historian, "because under slavery the law had rigidly denied it to them.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at Granddad, who’d tuned us out as soon as we started talking about writing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

A lightened ring in the leather around the first four syllables where someone had made several attempts to erase the writing looked like a halo. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Wittgenstein wrote in the Tractatus that ‘The world is the totality of facts, not of things.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I could call him “Char” quite easily, but writing it was another matter. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I kept my voice level as I called out the first of the letters he pointed to, but I wouldn’t write it down until he blinked. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your father? You think I look stupid? Everyone knows that stories in books are as old as the hills and were written by people dead and buried long ago.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Miss E. is looking over my shoulder as I write, and tells me not to interrupt my story with any more apologies. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper—these could easily evaporate after the war. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“You were an infant when he left. He never writes letters; he only sends money orders.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The subjects would range from report writing to the use of force, from penal law to “standards of inmate behavior,” from tool and key control to drug awareness. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she put up the post, written after a visit to Ranyinudo’s office, about the governments demolishing of hawkers’ shacks, an anonymous commenter wrote, This is like poetry. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Writing, I have come to value written words as never before. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Mom will get to write about poultry shows too one day, and she’ll take me with her when she goes to cover the story, like she used to sometimes. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

It’s fine with me if you want to write by hand. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

She quiets her voice, says, “Well, remember how I slipped up and told her about Treelore writing colored things down?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I’m going to try to write down the whole conversation again. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But he tried, and the more he wrote the less he dreamed. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There it is, in your tiny handwriting: April 27th: Studio TV-15, the words all jerky-looking, like you wrote them on the subway. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Lacey produces a copy of the grocery list she wrote for me and reads from it. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, there is a formula for writing graceful conditionals, and it becomes clear once you recognize two distinctions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Of course they were religious people, and the men who could read and write, who kept the records and drew the maps, were the tough untiring priests who traveled with the soldiers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Briony was lost to her writing fantasies—what had seemed a passing fad was now an enveloping obsession. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Tamar Lewin, who had insinuated herself in the world of teenage girls for a memorable chapter in the race series, knew from the beginning that she wanted to write about class divisions within families. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Even with the mask on, Chaol could see the happiness written across her face. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The best I could, I told her the miserable details, careful not to leave anything out: Rosaleen practicing writing her name, the three men taunting her, how she poured snuff juice on their shoes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you write the box number down?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I read through the other texts: We are written in paint. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We will write press releases, organize speakers, post flyers, reach out on social media, and more. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Let’s talk about the writing. Let’s talk about the website.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I had read many Westerns, of course, doing research, and had even written several, had indeed won the Spur Award from the Western Writers of America three times for Western novels. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell Mom to go away, to leave me alone, but I pretended to be a good kid instead, the way Dad would have written it. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“This organization is considering a plan to visit certain women’s colleges in this area and interview senior students majoring in mathematics,” the laboratory wrote. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Above the coconuts was the band’s name written over an eighties-looking checkered pattern. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

In the first weeks of January 1953, that nightmare seemed to come true: Pauling and Robert Corey wrote a paper proposing a structure of DNA and sent a preliminary copy to Cambridge. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

All the officer patients in the ward were forced to censor letters written by all the enlisted-men patients, who were kept in residence in wards of their own. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

No Snikcidy Lime: “This is my letter to the World That never wrote to Me—” What more satisfying lines for a brooding adolescent? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Townsend also added to his cover by joining a Tory militia and writing anti-Patriot articles for the Royal Gazette, a pro-Tory newspaper. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I’m so happy you wrote to me. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“I mean, being a journalist. You get to find out everything. You get to tell people’s stories and figure out the truth and write about it.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

So he came up here to print photos and write these messages after he left me downstairs? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I struggled to find the nerve to tell her I didn’t want to write her, that I wanted her to be there by my side. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“He got George to write to me too.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

That night, I wrote Martin a letter that said, I gave my parents your letter. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“My to-do list,” I explain, crossing off number 12, “Work out,” and heading to the very bottom of my list to write “Will drawing.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

At her elbow, Briony was telling Leon about the play she had written for him, and lamenting her failure to stage it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I’m not writing on stationery anymore, though, even though I do have one sheet of paper left. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Mojo and Maja are making it hard for me to write—they climb up on my lap and chew at my pen. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“Inside to warm up, Annushka. And to write a letter to your papa.” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

He remembers the big, long folding tables that he’d helped his father to set up, chalkboards on the walls, Sonia standing up on a chair, writing “Congratulations.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hassan taught him to read and write—his son was not going to grow up illiterate like he had. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Seriously, though? I think most poems are about sex. Robert Herrick wrote a poem called ‘To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.’” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Hannah Arendt, the influential cultural critic who documented the perverse excesses of Nazism, would later write about the “banality of evil” that permeated German culture during the Nazi era. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He takes a purple marker and writes on a notepad. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Clarke had the heartbreaking task of writing a full inventory of the damage; by half past nine in the morning, her hand was already starting to cramp. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I wrote to Erin—the woman Shawn had dated before and after Sadie, who I hadn’t seen since I was sixteen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And Mo took the book from Meggie’s hands, ran his eyes over the lines Fenoglio had added, and in a firm voice read to the end of what the old man had written. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nor am I even suggesting that you form mental images of trees while you write. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m wondering if you can write just one paragraph for me. Something about you. I’d like to learn something about you.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“God provides for every animal his means of sustenance,” he wrote. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Cranes Conquer America was written at the top in Emily’s eight-year-old scrawl, back when she was into putting smiley faces inside her e’s, o’s, and o’s. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

It took a year, but he finally wrote his own research paper. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Monday night’s homework always took forever, because the spelling words were also vocabulary words, and Ms. Udell insisted that each student write an official dictionary definition of each word before using it in a sentence. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

There were entire passages written in German, dated like journal entries. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

With all she had to do for the newspaper—not to mention her other schoolwork—Cara was barely able to find time each week to write her own editorial. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

A “little poor-looking insignificant Old Woman came in & solicited leave to go into the Country to buy some flour,” he later wrote. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned how a popular novelist like Dickens, writing for a middle-class audience, makes his readers aware of their ability to effect social reform. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was still shaking when I picked up the pen to write you. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

In the letters I write to Dutchy I try not to dwell on my sickness, the constant queasy feeling that the doctor tells me means the baby is thriving inside me. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Amaranta fetched the ledger where she had written down the facts about her nephews and as the telegrams arrived she drew lines through the names until only that of the eldest remained. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Across the top of the left-hand side, he wrote Marry. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

That makes me stare a little longer ’cuz I never knew women wrote books, ’specially colored women. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

When I reread what I had written it was as if I had cast a spell on myself and the entire experience filled me up again. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“I did not even know that a First Folio of Shakespeare was any nearer to me than the moon,” she later wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I pulled one out and opened it, but the writing was too blurred from rain to make out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And you tell that Aibileen, the next time she wants to write about my dear friend Elizabeth, uh-huh,” she says, flashing a crude smile. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“It is a kind of poem the Japanese write. It never rhymes, but it always has seventeen syllables.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Something to be said for writing my journals by hand, eh?” Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

This is what I wrote: This precept means that we should be remembered for the things we do. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Levy looked at the envelope, on which “personal” had been written three times in red ballpoint. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And how can I know who wrote the second letter, the one that came to me directly, with that mysterious list of words? Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

But the letter he wrote to her afterward is lost. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spread top-secret bomb plans on his desk so he could refer to them as he wrote up his report. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can be there in five, I write back. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I wrote the letter on overlay tissue paper. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

That’s where I heard the rest of the details I’m writing to you about. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She bent her head to write something on the papers in front of her, and attorneys up front started whispering because I guess Digger wasn’t supposed to go on like that. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We know that Brunelleschi discussed perspective with Masaccio, and that Alberti was soon to write a textbook on geometrical perspective. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Consider Gaspar de Carvajal, author of the first written description of the Amazon, an account reviled for its inaccuracies and self- serving descriptions almost since the day it was released. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I know my name is written in the Book of Life,” he said. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I was so stunned that I didn't know how to respond, but the answer was written all over my face. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I face out toward the big barn they have as a garage, and I write it in imaginary letters twenty feet high. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mostly Madam slept late, wrote letters, and picked out melodies on a badly tuned spinet. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It only sounds like moaning and groaning. It’s really saying stuff. Rabbi Gold is teaching me what it means. That’s important, because I have to write a speech about it.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

Thus, there is no evidence that the earliest Chinese scribes could have had knowledge of any other writing system to inspire them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Past time,” in contrast, is a semantic concept referring to an event that took place before the moment of speaking or writing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It seemed such a waste buying new underclothes for Clarice that I put the catalogue away in a drawer and never wrote to the shop after all. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It ain’t written down anywhere how to respond to a thing like that. I tole Dee, I said, ‘You needed to get away for a while, and then you come back.’ Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

She could write the scene three times over, from three points of view; her excitement was in the prospect of freedom, of being delivered from the cumbrous struggle between good and bad, heroes and villains. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“We’ll have to do things our own way. Maybe we’ll even write our own book, Cattle Raising on Indian Land, or how to raise cattle that don’t eat grass or drink water.” Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not enough for a real book until I cut each page into a small square staple the squares together, write one poem on each page. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Dr. Z did fill in the blanks on the one that Branwell had made, and he wrote on the bottom, “She’s beautiful, Bran, and she can’t wait to meet her brother.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him I thought it was really good, and that I hope I can write like him one day...I want him so bad. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I used to like to write,” her father admitted after a bit. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Vonetta was supposed to introduce us and say the name of our poem and that our mother wrote it But I could see her eyes growing big and her face ashen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try watching the movie, and when that doesn’t work, I try writing the scene in my mind. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I can’t speak up for myself and even lose my cool without somebody writing me off. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She asked, “Why don’t you write a letter to someone you know?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I long to hold you, but the only comfort I can offer are these words which I myself cannot write. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the writing the cleaning woman came in to say that she was going off, for her morning work wTas finished. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My first act,” I wrote, “will be to confess that I love you. I’ll beg pardon a thousand times for causing you unhappiness and make reparations by making you laugh a thousand times.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I have read it a thousand times since because I don’t know who wrote it. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The officer, instead of writing him up, threw it away without comment. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The word essays has come to seem normal and natural to us—students write essays all the time. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Gib was taking notes for a report he’d later write and share with the team. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he wrote in his memoir, Long Road Home, he could never have escaped from Camp 14 because “the guards there acted as if they were on a war front.” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

And at the bottom of the page there was written something so small that Cabot Searcy was forced to squint his eyes and bring his face down as close to the book as possible. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Articles in the magazine were, as the title implies, written plainly and seemed as much political as religious. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Listen,” he said, “you want me to go writing your name everywhere? Carving your initials on trees? Writing ‘Eleanor, Eleanor’ on little scraps of paper?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It is desolation,” wrote Teresa Dean, the columnist, about a visit she made to Jackson Park on January 2, 1894. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Besides, now that I had my own place to write things down, I saw things I’d never noticed before. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“The day of the horse is past, and the people in San Francisco want automobiles,” he wrote in 1908. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not the neatest writing, but I can see that she’s spelled out the name of Mama’s drink, the name that’s on all the labels. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Everyone wanted to know who had written about the murder. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

For it is written— second priest: Please do come in with us, beloved friend. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is cruder than to deprive such an unfortunate, withered woman and her little child of support?” he writes. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

There were about a million words worth of secret government and military documents, and another 1.5 million of narrative history written by the researchers. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“I with cheerfulness give this testimony of my approbation of their proceedings,” Clarkson wrote. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Because Antonapoulos did not write to him he would not know. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Seriously. He’s written like five letters so far, saying he’s going to break my pretty little neck. I even got one at this hotel.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Over the three years since Benton Sage had died, Cabot had continued his study of the Book of Enoch, and had even written four research papers on the topic. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

That’s as if an English speaker were to write the word believe as a picture of a bee followed by a picture of a leaf. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“In the gloomiest moments of the Revolutionary War,” he wrote in 1820, “I never had any apprehensions equal to what I feel from this source.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Usually they write, “Having wonderful time wish you were here,” or “How are you fine I hope,” or maybe just their name. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I started to write “Happy Birthday” on the frosted windows. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day Granny took him to school and explained the matter to the principal, who then wrote Uncle Piet a note, which he had to carry with him at all times. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Austronesians who went on to colonize Polynesia became isolated from East Asian metallurgy and writing and hence remained without writing or metal. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

When the war was over, he thought, maybe then he would write a letter to Kiowa’s father. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or if he wrote his own verses, or stole lines and passed them off as his own. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Show her the video where the dog's owner dresses like Gumby, I write finally. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Amaka used to write the office of the Head of State, even the Nigerian Ambassador in America, to complain about the poor state of Nigeria’s justice system. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Mendel wrote only one monumental paper on pea hybrids. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He was still trying to decide when the mute turned over the menu and began to write. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Often I have to write threatening letters to neighbors and friends of my mother and I worry they might discover me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

A couple of other people wrote that I made them laugh. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“John Adams never felt more serene in his life,” he wrote Abigail. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Someone who writes stories for the Cucaracha Voice heard about our mouse exhibit and wants to write it up for the paper. She is going to come Friday afternoon and bring a photographer.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

The notes he took were habit and comfort, as though his tidy writing could transform mystery into sense. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My first impulse was to write that I could not come because of an unforeseen financial disaster. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

It was where my mother wrote easy recipes for me to make. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Tycho could hardly write a book about a new star appearing in the midst of all that turmoil without at least nodding in the direction of astrology. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She had brought a collection of poems in case she had time to read, and her writing notebook, and her small troll with rhinestone eyes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

With a one-hour program to write, rehearse, and perform every seven days, Welles and Houseman were under—in Houseman’s words—“conditions of soul- and health-destroying pressure.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Putting Luma on a pedestal is counterproductive,” she wrote me once in an email. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Daugherty, ever since the two had met, had carried in the back of his mind the idea that Harding would make a ‘great President,’” Sullivan writes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Since high school, I have maintained a voracious appetite for learning, from Dickens to Langston Hughes to writings about nanotechnology, chemistry, and biology. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What Hobbes is writing about here is not truth, but authorization. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The letter was written in English, even though I had written in French. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

My answers were frequently vague, and Francis was visibly annoyed by my habit of always trusting to memory and never writing anything on paper. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

The sale of my writings may bring some profit. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Kudirat’s death will not be in vain, it will only galvanize the democratic movement in a way that even her life did not! I just wrote an article about this issue online in Nigerian Village.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I have seen papers that had been apparently swept off the terraces upon the shrubbery between them and the lagoons,” Olmsted wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In order to live it he had to write it. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were expected to master “running writing,” or cursive. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

‘All you need to write is “O.K.” and then I’ll know.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to write a letter to Al Capone,” I tell her. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pupils are required to unite the prefixes and suffixes with the radicals, thus forming the English derivatives, which may be given either orally or in writing. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw the obituary you wrote for the Daily Prophet,” said Harry. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

This process, it said in spidery writing on a card, was called trepanning. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hand kept writing, automatically, until the page was filled with the dark ink of his name. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It’s a special talent to be able to write backward. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

An investigator wrote in his notes, “This may have been real grief or...for effect.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

"Ain't that a wonder! I never heard of a rat-catcher could read and write and do sums. It don't fit. Don't forget your old friends when you grow up to be duke or something." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“A man, his whole life, matches himself against pay. And how, if it’s my whole life’s work to find my worth, can you, sad man, write me down instant in a ledger?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She bent down with her twig in hand and began to write in the dirt, all the while shooing her hens away. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

The passage also reminds us of the overlap in techniques for writing fiction and nonfiction. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Most garden paths in everyday writing, unlike the ones in textbooks, don’t bring the reader to a complete standstill; they just delay her for a fraction of a second. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It's weird how writing them down gives them weight. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Something like that. But first I must request that you write me a check.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have asked the question through my reading and writings, through the music of my youth, through arguments with your grandfather, with your mother, your aunt Janai, your uncle Ben. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Over in the woods, Coach Hedge muttered to himself as he wrote. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

But he really longed to know what she wrote and sketched about. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He was—my mom wrote a whole book about it—not that Fry knows. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“We are dying to see him,” her mother writes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

One side had writing on it, queer words she could not read. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“My mother’s scrubbing clean sinks till her hands are raw. Penny watches you sleep and writes down what you eat. They drink a fuckload. They’re getting drunk until the tears roll down their faces.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The writing keeps going, but I can’t keep reading because my hand has started to shake and I have to bury it in my opposite elbow. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“We went lousy,” Johnny White wrote in his journal that night. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The Tijuana horsemen, long accustomed to calamity, wrote off the horses, picked up, and went on. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is not enough to say that my mother and father do not want to write their autobiographies. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson, due to her husband’s involvement in the case, could not write the Sun Press’s story on the decision, so Sam Levi had been assigned the story instead. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Behind the counter is a young black woman in her twenties writing in a notebook that she puts away once she sees us. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He didn’t write anything down because he said he trusted his brain. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Leslie pulled out a pad and began writing something on it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“I found that my life was not my own,” she wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In my writing, there is a stepfather now who lives in California but meets us wherever we go. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Gripping my pen with sweaty fingers, I attempted writing a few words, just to make sure I didn’t forget anything. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It was a sickening sensation to feel the decks breaking up under one’s feet, the great beams bending and then snapping with a noise like heavy gun-fire,” he wrote later in his diary. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Frederick: the bunkmate Werner used to write about, the boy who loved birds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

However, when al-Khowarizmi was writing about the Hindu system of numbers, the West was still far from adopting zero. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I can’t sell my house because of this lightning thing. I can’t get an insurance agent to write me a homeowners’ policy. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time I rest my head on his shoulder, looking at the words we’ve written and the song we’ve created, and then at the license plate again. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“We’ll take our chances of becoming ‘contaminated’ with a hundred thousand ‘aliens,’” one reporter wrote, “if they produce only one William Frederick Friedman in a generation!” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Now, Will,” she whispered, “be sure and write down about you and that mill girl.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“Gogol enters the world,” his father will eventually write on the back in Bengali letters. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I took out my journal and flipped open to the page where I’d written down the details of Professor Thomas’s class. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Sympathetic professors wrote letters; exceptions of various sorts were made in my case. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The word code comes from the Latin caudex, the wooden pith of a tree on which scribes carved their writing. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

He wrote to the children, “The coat... will never warm my body so much as your dear affection has warmed my heart.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote the letters of the alphabet on the backs—two to a card, except for the last two, which had three each. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thus she avoided having to sign the register at the hotels for she could not read or write. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our lawyer tells us that we have the right to make our educational choices known to the principal and that you are not allowed to tell anyone we have written you this letter. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Hagrid’s note was dry this time, no tears had splattered it, yet his hand seemed to have shaken so much as he wrote that it was hardly legible. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She left Pel several contemporary novels—literature discussions had been one of their bonds—and they promised to write each other. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“It is believed that dybbukim possess the living so that they may perform tasks they were unable to complete in life. What were those words he had you write, Alter?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

When he wrote, Patients have to stay about ten per bed. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The poem was over, but the ambulance was still driving away from us, so I kept writing it. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Listen—” I said, “I’m writing this book about Dresden. I’d like some help remembering stuff. I wonder if I could come down and see you, and we could drink and talk and remember.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve got to realize that when they continually admonish me to speak and write simply so that people who read these reports will be able to understand me, they are talking about themselves as well. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was typing so fast, I barely saw what I was writing. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She had taught him to read and write so they could communicate with one another. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He waited to write the letter until after Squid had gotten up and joined the game of pool. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

It’s been almost a month now and you still haven’t written back. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I wrote, “The Khalil I know loved bubble baths almost as much as he loved his grandma.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Pocock wrote back with a long, detailed technical explanation of his design and proposed a few minor modifications that he thought might mollify Ebright without compromising the integrity of the shell. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“You should write letters to your mother,” she says, “and one day—if you do meet her again—you can decide whether you would like to give these letters to her or not.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was getting late, so instead of doing more research, I went upstairs to my room to start writing. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A friend writes that it’s a good thing he has his wife and child. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“You saw her answer!—you wrote her answer too. Emma, this is your doing. You persuaded her to refuse him.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

It was written on her face, though, a canyon of disapproval folded between her eyes. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

"I wrote you I would. You've asked me that about twenty times. Sure, I am." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“But it’s hard to tell you about the story. You see, granny, everybody knows that the story isn’t true, but . . .” “Then why write it?” she asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Captain Stewart told me to write it,” I said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good idea. We’ll get our mailbox number, write it in, and then take it to the museum office.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Benny looked at each other and frowned, but I smiled as I wrote it down, picturing Joe and Benny in those funny little hats and jackets. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Once writing had been invented by those few societies, it then spread, by trade and conquest and religion, to other societies with similar economies and political organizations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“If you possess it, you don’t need to ask what it is,” he writes. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was disappointed; I had taken time to write it and he seemed distant and uninterested. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

An article written exclusively for the Saturday Evening Post after the bombing captured the president’s reaction this way: “President Kennedy, echoing the national temper, said he felt a ‘deep sense of outrage and grief.’” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

What followed, as one geneticist wrote, was “one of the strangest silences in the history of biology.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Is Teddy studying so hard that he can’t find time to write to his friends? Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

School teachers suffer a good deal from having to listen to this sort of twaddle from proud parents, but they usually get their own back when the time comes to write the end-of-term reports. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve had a lot of time to write and read and think about things this past week because everyone is busy with prom and graduation and schedules. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Spektor wrote the new vocabulary words over the faded sketches of algebra lessons. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Charles wrote back, “To my mind an enourmous weight of evidence would be requisite to make one believe in anything beyond mere trickery....” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It also gives you a reason for writing, and that’s a good thing.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m sorry someone wrote this note,” she says. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Two or three times, I wrote letters to Wilfred intended for everybody back in Lansing. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like when I wrote those messages to Nora on the wall, when we sat on them during game night, and when I fell asleep on one of them. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

It is written: 'Tour soul is the whole world.” Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Almost all of the things written on the subject were editorials, not exposes,” Kennedy would later explain. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t be a pen pal if you didn’t write letters to each other. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They had no metal tools, no writing, and no weaving. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I erased my comment, relieved that I’d only written it in pencil. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

But the pens were worth the effort, and during the next few days Egypt was full of scribes practicing the ancient art of hieroglyphic writing. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He wrote that I was ‘excessively aggressive,’ ” Smith said, sounding a bit offended. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, finally, I simply write: Why couldn't I save yours? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

But why was I writing it to begin with? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I’d begun writing for a new website, Slashdot.org, an intensely geeky techno/pop-culture site devoted to the open source Linux operating system and to the open source and free software movements. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my own name, written over and over and over. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I ran my fingers over the writing utensils, longing to use them for my own drawings. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Yes, they are. They’re the ones I wrote about in my report, Mr. Hooks. These are them.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a lot of writing to do because at the bottom of each and every one of those invitations, we wrote: Your presence but no presents. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The pain became a drumbeat; a rhythm I could write a song to. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

She’s not like some mothers she knows who leave Honduras and forget their children, never call, never write. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Besides she seemed taken up completely with book reading, pamphlet writing and the adoration of the orphan. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gave some of my allowance back to my mom to write a check for Fig. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Biafra will win this war, God has written it in the sky,” said a man with a beard braided in a single thin strand. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know how to write and, besides that, a letter wouldn’t have done much good. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A piece of writing was affixed to him by a broken arrow that stuck out from his body. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

I set it on the kitchen table—a reminder of wishes come true—lit the kerosene lamp and finished writing my Honyocker’s Homily. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

So I wrote that the theme of the story was greed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

After all, Egypt by 3000 B.C. was undoubtedly the site of Africa’s most complex society, and one of the world’s earliest centers of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I’ll be celebrating another birthday by the time I get it written down. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

In perfectly straight vertical rows I see Chinese characters written in blue fountain-pen ink. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael tries to play it cool, whipping off his name fast, but Aimee’s tongue curls around the corner of her mouth as she writes. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

When he finally came back out, he seemed to be very tired, and he started writing the check. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The next evening, with a full belly, I wrote Caitlin a letter. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I am writing this to you from the airport. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Father will write the address on the envelope himself. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Instead, they were harmless bulletins from the Swiss Army, written on a simple, commercial version of Enigma. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I would sooner cut off my right hand than ask the ballot for the black man and not the woman,” she wrote to abolitionist Wendell Phillips. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

I write back to Rhiannon and tell her where I am. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

"Truly. I'm to assist Maester Aemon with the library and the birds. He needs someone who can read and write letters." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

That night I wrote in my diary: It’s hard being with Little Rock white people. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If this were true then it would become extremely difficult to see how historians could avoid writing Whig history. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

This is it, he thought, seeing it written—I am alone. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to write her a letter, but I start three of them and then crumple them up and stick them in my backpack in case Mom reads my trash while I’m at school. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

Hisao wrote a letter to his family each day; the food, he said, was not very good, but they were not really being mistreated. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“The director did a brilliant job of crafting the arc of the play,” she wrote. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“The irony of this is so grotesque it is rather charming,” he wrote in his personal journal. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“It means so much to me that you think I have done well all these years,” she wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

‘He could write well and speedily, and often used the Elvish characters.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t the heart to write last night; that terrible record of Jonathan’s upset me so. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I look at the itinerary, see that I am scheduled to stay at a certain hotel in a certain city, and sense that an exception has been made,” she wrote in her autobiography in 1956. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I nodded and quickly handed him the hankie, neatly folded to conceal my writing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He can sing prettily in four tongues, Lord Steffon had written . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“That’s right. They whispered, and he wrote the whispers in his book.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Three generations of imbeciles is enough,” he wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“I am not certain whether it was the food or the rose that made me have a quick recovery from my cold, or just the knowledge that someone cared,” she later wrote. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Wary of giving away game plans, the heirs decided the questions would be written out, but no names were to be signed. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I write my name on the dresser with my finger, then wipe it away. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I have preferred the account of Apollodorus, who wrote in the first or second century A.D. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hand shook as he wrote his answer. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You see,” Miss Crofts said, “in the Palmer method you really write with the underside of your forearm. The fleshy part.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can write the lyrics of the songs you like on the album and we can learn to sing them together, if you want.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But she had noticed how fast he learned the very first day when she gave him oral and written tests while Master waited outside the airless room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I’m under the bleachers now, on my stomach, writing in this journal. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“If that word ‘male’ be inserted as now proposed...it will take us a century at least to get it out again,” she wrote to Gerrit Smith at his home. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The founder had written: “The three virtues of the Stranger are to be silent, to be cunning, but above all to be invisible.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He listened to the conversations in the evenings, writing in his mind what he would later transfer to paper. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to work for the newspaper. I’ll write copy or deliver the papers to classes or clean the newsroom or change ink cartridges in the printers. I have some writing samples here for you.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, Mesoamerican societies during that time created more than a dozen systems of writing, some of which are known only from a single brief text. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But you added it to the formula, right? You wrote it down?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

She thought often of starting a blog, writing about what she cared about, building it up slowly, and finally publishing her own magazine. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

These conventions are “prescriptive rules”—rules that prescribe how one ought to speak and write in these forums. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Bell wrote the ratio on the board, 3:1, unaware of how much embarrassment she had caused both of them. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I will no longer write to you, mi amor. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know I thought and felt what I wrote. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Victoria Forester walked into Monday and Brown's with a list, written in her mother's precise handwriting, and she rang the small bell on the counter for service. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Of our last name written in neon lights in the window of Travis’s new place. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

What did she think about that? he wrote. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

For a whole orchestra—how did you write that? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

For three weeks he had been in a panic over a paper he had to write for his fourth course, something called Masterworks of English Literature. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I know it’s going to be long and dopey, because every letter I’ve written to you has been long and dopey. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Our schoolbooks are so old, my science textbook says there are still nine planets. They’re so old, I found my mother’s name written in one from when she was a kid.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

She wrote: Jamilah's words made me remember that there is nothing more beautiful than what God gave me. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

C.P. knew better than to write any of this in his letter. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Starting on the far left of the whiteboard, Mr. Quisling wrote out the standard alphabet. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Then he would open one of the books, search laboriously through the index, and look up a reference before writing that down too and turning back to the instrument. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I write Maybe, which he immediately rips up. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My feet are burning even as I sit here and write. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She’s already very skilled at it, having helped on some of Dad’s plays back in California, but now she’s writing for herself. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

The cacophony of voices faded to a dull hum as she began to read what she’d written. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to leave you this letter I wrote.” Liar, Liar 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said he wanted to wear fancy shoes instead of muddy ones, and then he wrote a song about it called “The Muddy Shoes Blues.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I expected to see writing on the walls. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I miss you, Baba, I miss you, I write. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Have you tried writing all the letters on a separate page, in the order they show up in the book?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He scratched out “7–18” and wrote in “8–23.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When the letter was written, the gaoler frowned at it suspiciously. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Reducing the black-white test score gap,” wrote the authors of one study, “would do more to promote racial equality than any other strategy that commands broad political support.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

More rumblings broke out, and Newt wrote something on his pad, shaking his head the whole time—which gave Thomas a tinge of hope. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He wrote "Friday" next to the first row, "Saturday” next to the second row, and "Sunday” next to the third row. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

“That means he writes movies. But he can’t sell them, so he’s freeloading on my parents.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I have a difficult time writing at extended length about anything. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was practicing the writing of his signature. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nobody in Germany starves, and few, if any, go hungry,” he wrote. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“His came from a cut. He wrote me about it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Clark wrote that some of the tribes thought York was magic, thought he was some kind of supernatural being. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Corporate profits and ever-expanding markets were major reasons for this, he wrote in his book. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

The desk top is of blond wood; it slants down, and there is an armrest on the right side, to lean on when you were writing, on paper, with a pen. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Waters, a journalist by profession, had written two books on the variation, both of which he presented to Bobby—eventually, he’d teach the boy the intricacies of the game and become a lifelong friend. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve started doing what Kyla does—writing lots of stuff down—and it seems like people do take you more seriously when you do that. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Pinned to the wall was a note in red on the last piece of drawing paper, in writing that was not her mother’s: Wicked girl. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Every few nights he sat under his one lightbulb and wrote long letters to Joyce. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

It was heavily plagiarized from a work written thirty years earlier by the Oneida Community’s founder. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

By early middle age, Harding’s biographer Francis Russell writes, his “lusty black eyebrows contrasted with his steel-gray hair to give the effect of force, his massive shoulders and bronzed complexion gave the effect of health.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

It turns out that I’m sitting in the front row next to Keisha—the girl who can bake and write at the same time while I can’t do either. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I remember seeing her write in it before she wedged it under. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had glass sides and looked as if it might have been used to write memos during the Civil War. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

"Those stories don't tell the half of it. The scribes wrote them down centuries afterward. They didn't know the truth." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Nobody writes about Miss Teen Dreamers in history books,” Adina scoffed. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I shall write sonatas en trio; and Slant perhaps shall be proprietor of his own plantation. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

You told me I wrote that poem because I was afraid of dealing with myself. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Then he says, “My brother and I used to love to write in the sand on the beach. When my family would go to Maine.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He wrote his question in German, and it wasn’t until then that I realized he had been writing in English all afternoon, and that I had been speaking English. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I spend a lot of time now writing obscure words in the dark. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And that is when I started writing this. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The staff with fewer ledger lines is easier to read and write. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Ma writes to him, but he doesn’t write back. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Even though she is so weak, I’m surprised by the steadiness of her hand as she writes on the “Do Not Wear” list: “Gray, shapeless, mannishly tailored pants.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

By the time he writes, he is almost sure the baby’s life isn’t in danger, but he is still upset and anxious. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Gus loaded this giveaway site called Free No Catch and together we wrote an ad. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t make a move soon,” Rutilio said, “I will make sure that that’s what they write on your gravestone.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“That bird was a personal friend of Miss Wren’s. It was hundreds of years old. It was written about in the Tales. And now it’s dead.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“We shall be ranked among those nations who have shown themselves careless of appearances,” wrote the Chicago Tribune's Paris correspondent on May 13, 1889. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

She wrote, ‘Let the world see what I have seen.’ Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

As he began writing, I glanced up at the clock. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Even if I was in English class and writing about whatever the hell I wanted to, instead of the assignment, I was still doing something I could turn in. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Dill ran his fingers over what Travis had written—it seemed like years ago. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

If you can write something down, you can claim it as yours. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He became the drama and art critic for a student newspaper and wrote a review of the first play he ever attended. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I write, You make me feel gold, flowing. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There was so much to write on the Not Marry side of the page! Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I think you enjoy writing on the blackboard, Mr. Knapp," she said. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had even progressed to writing some pieces; one of them I know he named “The Bastille Concerto.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most kids my age would call Darlene a diary, but she’s much more than a place to write stupid lists of the cutest guys in eighth grade. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The real ones, with the real words Shakespeare wrote. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Inventing a writing system from scratch must have been incomparably more difficult than borrowing and adapting one. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The primary fact now is that the element of gamble in the overall picture no longer exists,” he wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

“There is no doubt that there are many Indians on all sides about us,” Cherrie wrote. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Of those, possibly none would pass the written and oral exams. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never used it. You can use it to write down your scientific observations. You’re a regular naturalist in the making.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

The Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States echoed the Declaration of Sentiments, written almost thirty years before, but it did not include the same demands. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

For my sister Deborah, Mom wrote that she was so beautiful, she would get at least one hundred cows when she wed. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

We had sixty seconds to write the work’s title and the artist’s full name. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Wonderful, Virginia!” she says, and puts me in charge of the whole production—writing, directing, casting, everything. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

A couple mothers had a table spread out with plates and napkins and a big white bakery cake that had Congratulations written on it. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Anyway, the same words can be found in both books, which makes sense because they’re written by the same author. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Himself not especially susceptible to flattery except in a sentimental way, he soon learned its efficacy when plastered thick on big business men,” Sullivan wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I am told by Biddy, that air the writing,” said Joe, repeating the legal turn as if it did him infinite good, “‘account of him the said Matthew.’ Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The answer of the Communist leader ran from organizing to writing novels. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the past, agriculture, writing, and improved pre-gun weapons took much longer to spread much greater distances, but the underlying social processes of population replacement and competition were essentially the same. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning, when Mami brings me the bedpan, I tell her, “I want to see the newspaper that Uncle Bill kept, where they wrote about the accident.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Tia and October had said this was also happening in Boggs Ferry but that reporters were banned from writing about it by the Gran and Uncle of that town. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

And I wrote at least one more daily letter, replying to one of my brothers and sisters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is what Kat wrote, with her own comment after each theory saying how likely she thought it: 1. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking more closely, she saw the shoemaker’s name written on the insides, in gold lettering that had all but faded: something and sons, it said. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Without raising his voice he said, “There is a kind of writing that is appropriate in school, and there is a kind that is INappropriate.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

The name written next to mine is Molly. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

“Well, not many people could read this anyway. It’s the same secret writing that I used. As you saw, not even Elinor can decipher it.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But now she wrote that they were going to a baile on the day of Saint Valentine. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, in case she became a famous writer, Lynn practiced writing little stories in her diary: Once upon a time a funny witch cast a spell on all the world’s creatures. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I’m waiting for the escape plan, I write back. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He later wrote his own book about his adventures with John Wilkes Booth. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hugo found this book. It told us about his movies. Monsieur Tabard wrote the book, and Etienne is his student. Please, Mama Jeanne. They want to help. They love Papa Georges’ films.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

A plane was writing high up in the air. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I write back, it takes him a long time to respond, and when he does, it’s never in answer to anything I’ve said. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

They always hoped that someone would write her biography, but for years nothing quite came together. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

In 2006 he wrote to the judge who sentenced him, saying he wanted to pay back the money he stole and needed to know who to send it to. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Because it’s written all over both of us.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote, You were happy when I was away. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He often asked who you were writing to and why. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

They led the simplest kind of lives, and studied and wrote; they grew their own food, built their own houses and furniture. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I told him everything that had happened, even about the creature, as he sat nodding across the kitchen table, writing nothing in his spiral notebook. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As a D Group prisoner, I was entided to have only one visitor, and to write and receive only one letter, every six months. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Daisy didn’t have a computer, so she did everything on her phone, from texting to writing fan fiction. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

He writes to Jo, too, though she has already heard from the family. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In one letter Raji wrote that he had planted a tamarind tree in the courtyard. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

His military aide, Navy Captain John H. Morse Jr., seconded his opinion: “You may detect some feeling that clean weapon potentialities have been over-stated and over-simplified recently,” he wrote Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him it was true, but when I counted 2, 3, 5, 7, what came out instead was, “What do you write in there?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote more sonnets and odes to everything imaginable. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I thought about the letters I’d written every day to my parents. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

Their names are like names in a footnote, or names written in spidery brown ink in the fronts of Bibles. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Debts written on the wind tend to be... forgotten, shall we say?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But Charles wrote to him and reassured him that in time he would remember her with much less pain, as he did Annie. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was learning how to write efficiently, how to think critically. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps she never set her thoughts down in writing, or perhaps it was a time she wished to forget. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Like Galileo, Kepler believed that the book of nature is written in the language of geometry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Of General McClellan, Shadrach wrote: I have never known men of my age—and many much older—who have so completely worshipped another man. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

"My anxiety for her dominates all my thoughts,” Garfield wrote in his diary, "and makes me feel that I am fit for nothing.” Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Stepping to the door,” he wrote, “I saw them at full speed chasing in my patrols.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

To write it for a C instrument, transpose it back down one whole step. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I thought about Audrey’s mother putting those grapes in that little bag and writing that note. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

As the journalist Mark Sullivan wrote, of that moment in the garden: Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“In the fall of 1885,” he wrote, “starvation was staring me in the face.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Rosaleen was in the honey house washing a new shipment of mason jars, a job that belonged to me, but she’d volunteered for it, seeing how badly I needed to write everything out. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to write on, so he wrote on me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was late when he returned to the Astrea, but he wrote to her. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Education! And sure, who was it taught me to read and write? Nobody but meself.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Working all day and writing half the night brought me down with a severe chest ailment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years, her son had written her only sporadically, quick notes jotted down, it seemed to Celia, between his lectures. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I haunted her as she haunted me; she looked down on me from the gallery as Mrs. Danvers had said, she sat beside me when I wrote my letters at her desk. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m reading your entire body of work,” I wrote. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Logically, I knew that loving books and writing did not make me homosexual, but more and more I hid those interests. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was about to write when he remembered that he did not have his gloves on. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Their material cultures were simpler, too—no writing, no stone plazas, no massive temples—though Plains groups did leave behind about fifty rings of rock that are reminiscent of Stonehenge. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Francie, about a year ago he gave me that card all written out and two dollars. He said, “When Francie graduates, send her some flowers for me—in case I forget.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A story that has to be memorised and spoken out loud is necessarily less complex than a novel that can be written down and unfolds over a greater length of time. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She felt “presumptuous in writing this to you.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Mwila walked down the space that separated the girls and Ellis Carter from the boys, to hand out our second attempt at essay writing. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Though there are many men who cannot read or write, they all speak English. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “One writes half the book: the other half is with the reader.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Even now, it’s hard to tell exactly who wrote what. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I reached for the prescription pad on her desk and wrote down Sina’s name with a big question mark. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was so sleepy that I fell asleep before I could ask him why he was writing it then. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, Chaplain? Do you know who wrote that?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

"He's well qualified for the job. And your husband, how's his writing coming along?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Winston was writing in his diary: It was three years ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t going to write about it, but I guess I got to, because it’s important. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But he wrote it because he had also thought of a pun that he could not resist making. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“There was an old scar across it, but he managed to make out the writing: ‘Property of the Alacran Estate.’ The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

By understanding how the various features of grammar are designed to make sharing possible, we can put them to use in writing more clearly, correctly, and gracefully. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Probably the suspense is killing me, but I will just have to wait a few years till he works out the final answer, tune in for the next thrilling installment, he writes, in block letters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Well, Charles, write me a letter and tell me all the news of the old home. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

My mother stares, baffled, as I present her with a red construction-paper heart, with writing on it that she has no idea how to read. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because I’m a damsel in distress,” she said, “and you are a knight in whatever. A really dirty car. You know someone wrote Wash Me! on your rear windshield?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The returning student had recently come through a difficult divorce, and because her pain was significant, she wrongly insisted that her writing was significant as well. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

And now, after this last death, he writes Theo a letter filled with quotes from the Bible. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“If that was Grog the boys took for Seabiscuit the other morning then let me caution you thus,” wrote the turf reporter known as Jolly Roger, who wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sis Heyster also writes that girls my age feel very insecure about themselves and are just beginning to discover that they’re individuals with their own ideas, thoughts and habits. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“My assessment,” the doctor writes, “is that he will be able to recover in a short time, while retaining the extreme excitability that must form the essence of his character.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It seems odd that women once spent such time and energy reading about such things, thinking about them, worrying about them, writing about them. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I’d be a dull person if I wrote about nothing but being poor and hungry, wouldn’t I?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the “newest city” of the world, Twain had written—a place where scientists, writers, philosophers, and intellectuals were gathering in cafés and salons to forge a free and futuristic society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Lacey prepares a grocery list for each of us, written in small letters on the backs of receipts she found in her purse. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Closer examination showed each side to be covered with writing, resting on a curved line that spiraled clockwise in five coils from the disk’s rim to its center. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the mailman would wait until you wrote a response to a letter just received. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As F. E. Smith unkindly put it, “Winston has spent the best years of his life writing impromptu speeches.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

It had been “believed in some quarters that brilliant new ideas would flow from the establishment of competition,” he wrote Colonel Fields at the AEC. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

But all the writing was the handwriting of children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All marks—signs—written in my best cursive. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

And I hadn’t written to a single English department. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wrote two or three a day sometimes. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I remember sitting on the dining room floor, writing letters to God in my Indian Head tablet. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy looked at him with disbelief, but Resa went on writing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Joaquin thought for a minute, then rolled back over onto his side, closing one eye so he could see the screen, okay, he wrote back, see you at ten? Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I wrote my draft in pencil, and when I was satisfied with my efforts, I sought out Granddaddy to show it to him. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Though he learned to speak a fluent, somewhat eccentric English, his written command of the language was mediocre at best. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In a half dozen others were papers, some written on, others sealed, some with line after line of careful script crossed out with thick colored lines. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“The house is in such a bustle,” Charles told her, “that I do not know what I write. I have got the ring, which is the most important piece of news I have to tell.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone even offered to represent him if he wanted to write a book. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I had to find somebody to write to beside Mama so I would get mail. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He told us that this was written on the tombstone of some Egyptian guy that died thousands of years ago. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Most people would have written me off as a delusional lunatic, but Diego treated me like he believed what I was saying, or at least believed that I believed it. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I finished a card for my mom, but I haven’t written anything yet. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As the needle went into my brother’s arm and he screamed, my mother looked at me with agony written all over her face and assured me, “Next one doesn’t hurt.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sleek and shiny, with a mahogany handle, it had a long tail of neat, straight twigs and Nimbus Two Thousand written in gold near the top. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I went to the guest room and pretended to write. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I have always loved our elm trees which seemed like trademarks on our landscape,” wrote another Wisconsin woman. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

“I wrote out the checks,” he said, mostly to himself. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The letters at the top were written in this careful, slow hand, but some of the ones at the back of the pile were in shaky writing. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Whoever had carved the stela had some knowledge of writing and mathematics. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought of myself as sitting down at a desk,” she wrote, “...and working away at research or something like that.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I wrote about my favorite things to bake, describing all of the recipes in detail. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

The July 6 memo was written in a style that her colleagues think of as quintessential Terryl: deeply passionate but somehow dispassionate enough, and just to the point. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She wants to protest, to picket, to write letters to the owners of the place. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She held out her hand and I gave her the note containing what felt like the two most important sentences I’d ever write. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“Grace, Grace, Grace. This has disaster written all over it.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I’m wondering,” Jolly Roger wrote later, “if that really was Seabiscuit the boys were looking at.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a while, I got up, dressed, found the Hotel Filosoof stationery, and wrote him a love letter. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

He autographed the book and told me to keep writing. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can try to read the picture writing on the walls. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

First thing, I got to write Temp a postcard and be sure it’s all right for Mary Toy to stay on till we get back.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Had they received the letter I wrote them thanking them for all their help? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I dream that I’m writing a memoir. A memoir would be just the thing to keep me in the hearts and memories of my adoring public.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I tried to write and draw everything I could remember in the sketch pad, so I could transfer all that Robin had explained into the field guide. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

This lady said the Langston who wrote these words is a poet. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

More precisely, these ratios had to be written in the form a/b, where a and b were nice, neat counting numbers like 1, 2, or 47. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She had married the journalist Roberto Suirez, who was assigned to the National Palace and, though critical of the regime, wrote the flowery feature articles required of him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She is a writer as well! What do you suppose she writes with?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were alert to the gap separating the written word from the colloquial. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagine if you were a kid with a friend, you could make a paper boat and write a secret message on it. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He had written many popular German plays and poems in his time, and had married a famous German actress named Resi North. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early days of the British Museum, prospective visitors had to make a written application and undergo a brief interview to determine if they were fit to be admitted at all. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wanted to write, but his apartment was not the ideal lair for a would-be author. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can’t. I got econ homework, a speech to write—man, I thought you were supposed to do all the work. I just put up the money.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

So, it’s one thing for us to write diaries like Anne and Zlata, but if we want to be like the Freedom Riders, we need to take that extra step. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She would brush back her wispy bangs and hand the other sister the pen, and she would write: Come get us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the very first passage she wrote in the bible. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I think this will be good, he wrote. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Dots and ties give you much freedom to write notes of varying lengths, but so far you must build your notes from halves of other notes. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

And I want to do more to help than write back on the wall. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I understand not writing back, but why wouldn’t you even read my emails?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I feel that I’m lucky to be alive to write novels today, when the whole world is caught in the pangs of war and change. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He studied, ate, slept, and wrote to Abra, and this was his whole life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One always had something that the other needed—as if everything were indeed written by one hand. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

She picked up one of the shakily written letters. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I’d quickly written up a piece about harvest and dutifully sent that in. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Then, aloud, I read back, to myself, everything I’d written on the tablet. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about writing something of my own on the wall. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In fact, good English is especially important in cyberspace because the speed and brevity of email and other online writing conspire to muddle your message. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

During that time, I was able to write to her and my daughters, who were at boarding school in Swaziland, expressing support and solidarity. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wishing Jackson, Mississippi, was interesting enough to write a whole book on, and even though it is Jackson ... well, he doesn’t know that. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He suggested that I use a fake name so the Taliban wouldn’t know who was writing the diary. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Park had already written his parents a note: Mom and Dad, I had to help Eleanor. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The Aunts are allowed to read and write. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt so good, writing in the journal again. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Although each of those systems used distinctive sets of signs not borrowed from Egypt or Sumer, the peoples involved could hardly have been unaware of the writing of their neighboring trade partners. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In trying to stop him, the officer had broken his dental plate, the inmate complained; and all he’d been trying to swallow anyway, he said, was a written note. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So in Macbeth, when he wasn’t trying to find names that sound alike, what did he want to express in words more beautiful than had ever yet been written?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Bridey’s mother and other people in our lane and lanes beyond will come to the door to ask Dad if he’ll write a letter to the government or a relation in a distant place. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He wore an old leather jacket, unzipped, and a black T-shirt with writing on it but I didn’t notice what it said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had it simply been lost in the sixteen years that had elapsed since it had been written, or had it been taken by whoever had searched the room? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I wrote a letter to the police commissioner myself in support of Miyamoto, but I never received a reply, and Miyamoto was rejected. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Help, I’m drowning in spit,” Mary Anne wrote. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah, well, they got it wrong then, when they wrote that label. That skull with the two holes in it is thirty-three thousand years old.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Desk drawer,” Safer says, writing in his notebook. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

According to an account written in the Suffragist, they burned “all the words he has ever uttered or written on the subject of democracy.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The men were also allowed to write a final letter. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Dude was staring right at the sentences I’d just written about him, right? We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Why would a murderer fool around writing messages about a missing toy? The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took my seat at the writing desk after moving all the books to the couch where she sat. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It had writing of some kind, though it seems not to have been used much; in any case the script has not been deciphered. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Number two: Do not enter an area that is fenced off. “Number three: No visitors unless you’ve made your request in writing one week prior to the visiting day. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke frowned and wrote on the paper, Why not take off? Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s plenty of space. And I’ll promise to write you a very good recommendation letter as long as you promise something in return.” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My mom wrote to my gran, asking her to send the price of a train ticket, about thirty rand, to bring her home. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“I want you to get him to declare Miss Trixie senile and incompetent and to explain the motivation for writing the letter.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said we had a lot of catching up to do because the other groups were already writing out presentation drafts. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Don’t get me wrong, nobody wants to write a paper if he doesn’t have to, but this time, it felt like we were getting cheated out of something. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Yes. You remember him, I guess. He says you wrote that letter.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I hope he didn’t go there. There are lots of transformers around Bovina. I found four when we were writing to the utilities company.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

She asked him if he’s still writing to Dawn Celeste, but he only says, “Do I ask you your business? You mind your own, I mind my own.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The period between the late eighteenth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, wrote Michel Foucault, saw “the disappearance of torture as a public spectacle” and the gradual phasing out of corporal punishments. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I haven't gotten a letter from my momma in nearly a year, though I still write faithfully. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I certainly would not write about that—it was the one thing I didn't like about my hometown. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I wrote newspaper articles, led parades and relief delegations, and so on. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The first case operated on under the sterilization law” had gone just as planned, and the patient was discharged in excellent health, Bell wrote. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Hieroglyphic writing appeared rather suddenly, in nearly full-blown form, around 3000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike many of her classmates, she hadn’t gone to Japanese school before the war, which was why she couldn’t read and write the language. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A single word was barely legible on the frame, written by hand in black ink: Kraken. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I went on writing, feeling myself strangely near tears. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I was shocked when I looked at the pink notebook Dr. Fiona had given me and saw the questions I had written when I first arrived. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Speaking and writing involve very different kinds of human relationship, and only the one associated with speech comes naturally to us. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s when grown-ups write letters to their younger selves and give advice and stuff,” I say. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

She is here, she wrote, over and over and over again. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The attorney offered letters written by Guiteau that demonstrated his erratic and often irrational behavior, starting from childhood. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The cop turned back around and began to write something on a clipboard. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Maybe this is The Wicked Wizard War-related, and he’s opening up a freshly written sex scene to inspire us. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

If I were to ask you to perform in a play that I’d written, before a live audience with a month of rehearsal, I suspect that most of you would say no. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He knows how to put God and the street in the same sentence, and I figured if I’m going to write poetry at all, that’s what I want to do. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did he happen to mention anything about you writing up a letter for me?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hyacinth helped Laney write “I’m sorry. Love, Laney” before writing her own apology letter. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

It was a scroll of parchment with Harry’s name written upon it in familiar thin, slanting writing. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

One of them said that it would be a nice time to bury the novel, now that a Virginian, one hundred years after Appomattox, had written Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blue is normally so careful about what he writes. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Each girl thought that this had been written about her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Characteristically, the writing is in pencil; over the years it’s become a bit smudged but it’s still quite legible. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

West Virginia’s Governor Homer Holt saw the writing on the wall: the choice was to integrate or, like its neighbor to the east, dig in and contest the ruling. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

And in this experiment you put your head in a clamp and you look at a page of writing on a screen. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Back then she mostly wrote nonsense or drew pictures of cats, but now her notes made up a reading diary of sorts. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

When I read my first V. C. Andrews book, Dawn, I tried to write my own book. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She uses the class list to write their names inside the sunburst-shaped badge. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here it is, written down,” he said, “Baker, two o’clock. And a big cross beside it, to show that the appointment was kept. And here is the telephone address. Museum 0488.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Later.—I endorse the last words written, but this time there is no doubt in question. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

For awhile Farmer joked in Spanish with the server, and then the conversation turned to the book I was writing. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Even people in prison wrote to us, telling us that they hope our future is successful, because they were doubtful about their own. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I wrote things because I couldn’t say them, couldn’t sort out my feelings about them, couldn’t keep them bottled up inside me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The whole country is divided into two camps,” wrote Dave Boone in the San Francisco Chronicle. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lawes wrote five nonfiction books in all; he also did radio broadcasts and contributed articles to magazines. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Much like the Gothic architecture that shaped the buildings for which it was written, isorhythm did not last as a tool in the organisation of music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And the fat, weeping woman at home to whom I must write. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And they so impressed him with this that he wrote glib verses to prove it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The two composers did meet once, an encounter brokered by the kindly Antonio Salieri, and we have it word for word since Beethoven, being deaf, had to have the conversation written down. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was written very clearly in the rules. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

They knew I wrote the titles on the napkin. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

And Mother had never written a letter to me before. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was once written of Mackintosh, “His gut is famous.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

He said my story would appear in newspapers everywhere just as I had written it because it was on the Associated Press wire. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below the red writing there’s a line of smaller print, in black, with the outline of a winged eye on either side of it: God Is a National Resource. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa takes out a pen and writes his building number on my hand: B4, Hannover. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I had written on nearly all the windows in the neighborhood when a woman stopped me and drove me home. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After I finished packing, I wrote a note to Trampita to thank and surprise him. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I’m summoned to help since the old man can’t read what I wrote. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not long before I am ahead of copy and Mister Golden seems pleased with the column, the first two of which only took me about twenty minutes to write. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

By the time Calder turned up, she was writing madly in the notebook. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

And if something you write doesn’t get your point across, it’s probably not the reader’s fault—it’s yours. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words on the pages had stopped making sense, and nothing I could write was adequate to express the despair I felt. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

When writing finally returned to Greece, in the eighth century B.C., the new Greek writing, its users, and its uses were very different. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She insisted on checking over his homework and projects even though he also got extra help at school for reading and writing. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s on my mind the next morning when I sit down to write in my journal, as I do every Monday through Friday before heading down to breakfast. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

She said that she liked my writing, and wrote down a list of four books she wanted me to read. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Young ladies sketched, did watercolors, wrote short paragraphs of imaginative prose. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“We have a new fifth grade teacher, Mr. Diggs. He used to write and act in plays before he became a teacher,” Macy said, smiling. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

At one time it was discovered that she was writing letters to the Bishop, whom she claimed as a first cousin, but it was never said whether she received any reply. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Then in the winter of 1840, Henry wrote that he had been elected as a delegate to the World Anti-Slavery Convention, in London, and he would be abroad for about eight months. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know, write it down, look it up,” Ernie mumbled. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“That letter was written six months ago, a few days before I left for Peshawar,” Rahim Khan said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If the letter was writ fancy, like this one was, with swirlingness and curlycues and such nonsense it only meant one thing: A friendly white person was writing to let you know somebody was dead. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

One group of illiterate migrant workers began asking me to read and write letters to and from the wives and children back in the tribal reserves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can never get the words to sound like I want them to. So I come outside when I can be all alone, and I write stuff that nobody sees.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I wrote to the nurses asking for a wire to clean my teeth. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He wrote on it, simply: God bless you. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started to raise her hand to ask for help, but Mrs. Grayson was busy with the third graders, who seemed to be having no trouble at all with their writing projects. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And so they continued; by the end, Raymie had written a letter of complaint for Isabelle, detailing how the Golden Glen janitor played the wrong kind of music on the common-room piano. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

As I am writing this chapter, every few pages I see the green wiggly line of Microsoft Word’s grammar checker, and usually it flags an agreement error that slipped under my tree-spotting radar. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“It is so hard to be here after the weekend,” he wrote me. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

That is, an abstract word was written with the sign for another word pronounced similarly but with a different meaning that could be readily depicted. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was so bored I wished the telephone would ring with Miss Volker calling to tell me Mr. Spizz had dropped over dead and I had to come down and write one last obituary. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was a small private space, like her own little office, where Cara could just sit and read, think, and write. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Astonishing numbers of white people called, and wrote, offering contributions, or asking could they join? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When a European arrives in the West Indies and gets settled or set down for any length of time, he finds it necessary to provide himself with a housekeeper or mistress,” one eighteenth-century observer wrote. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

I read and reread Oscar’s letter alone by myself in the Garcías’ bathroom with the door locked, just like in those old, sad days in hiding, writing in my diary in the Mancinis’ bathroom. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I am under a lot of pressure right now. Speaking of which, I see that the squirrel is typing. On my typewriter. Where I write.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer’s preamble to the document delivered the gist: “No member of the Committee was willing to endorse this proposal,” he wrote. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I continued the letter to Charlie, writing about everything other than the war. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They do nothing hut thumb their rosaries and recite a book written in a tongue they don’t even understand. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then, quickly, I tried to write a few lines describing them. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

It takes me awhile, seeing as how I have written a lot and sometimes it doesn’t make sense so I have to fix it while I’m talking, but Addie does not stop me. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Almost as an aside, he pointed out one possibility that other researchers hadn’t considered: all transformed cells seemed to behave identically to HeLa, he wrote, which could mean that HeLa was the contaminant. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I wrote it. While there was still enough light to see.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

She turned and wrote both on the board. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

When I looked over, anger was written all over her face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I took out the notebook and began to write as the train jerked its way out of the station, out of Harlem. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Finch has written numbers beside each one so that there’s a kind of order. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I sat down with my writing journal and grinned like an idiot. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Back in the room, I wrote a note to Fred and I stuffed the rest in the field guide. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Forty-three years old and I’m still writing war stories. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hymn is written in the key of E flat. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“I guess I was hoping you’d want to write it on your own.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Reading over what I have written so far I see I have given the impression that the events of three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

There’s a good reason to stay away from writing these. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I caught the stomach flu in the fifth grade, my mother sent a note to school written on the back of a holiday memo from Vice President Biden. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

When it was my turn, the Nazi with the tattoo pencil grabbed my arm and started to write. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny felt a little ashamed of how long it had taken to bother with writing out the alphabet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

This devastating and largely correct physical analysis was written in Wallace’s eighty-fourth year. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

And he was in front of everyone, so he wrote her a check, which she deposited into her college fund. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Because of the war, he said, he never got past the second grade, never learned to read or write. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“All the rhetorician’s rules,” wrote Samuel Butler, “teach but the naming of his tools.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Mr. Barris picks up a pencil and writes a London address beneath the printed name. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He had less than a week to write an hour-long script! Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

We spent the next period writing paragraphs about Zambia, choosing one minor subject. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The owner’s name was written on the lid in greasepaint. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His journalism was temporary, something he would do until he wrote that brilliant novel. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Thousands of women have been sentenced to lengthy terms in prison for writing bad checks or for minor property crimes that trigger mandatory minimum sentences. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I wrote it all down, then told him to go ahead. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When his vision returned to normal, the boy was able to read what the old man had written in the sand. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, Miss Braden-Hammerschmidt. A project! You know that essay English teachers always make kids write? ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

“What does your face say to the world?” is written on the blackboard. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“And write something for Horace too,” he said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I hope you don’t mind that I wrote it on my own.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

From there I wrote how the Black Panthers used “solidarity” to talk about “the people” being united as one people. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I do tell them about the journal, though, and how someone was writing to me and how we figured out that it was Madeline Mitchell. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I felt a surge of pride as I read my first adult book—and a book about Africa written by an African. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“You think any of the papers will write about the Klan rally last night?” she asked. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“No. What if the typos themselves were part of a second word, too—made up of only the corrected letters that you wrote. That’s never happened?” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I imagined myself writing longhand, an old-fashioned dip pen stabbing furiously into a bottle of black ink and then scratching with amazing precision across sheets of white paper. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The play she had written for Leon’s homecoming was her first excursion into drama, and she had found the transition quite effortless. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

During the days that followed letters were written, affidavits were drawn up and sworn to, conferences were held, but nothing came of it all. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Engel, bless her, skipped over the last few paragraphs I wrote yesterday when she was translating for von Linden last night. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But now writing is one of the things I can’t do. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

"A witty limerick is very hard to write," she added. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps if you try writing the question out?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I flipped to the next blank page of his little book and wrote, Please marry me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Warner has written it on the whiteboard outside the gym doors: Volleyball! Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s better to copy something than not to write anything at all. What do you say?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who is heard using the word frindle instead of the word pen will stay after school and write this sentence one hundred times: I am writing this punishment with a pen. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was writing paper, ink, pen and pencils. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Reilly would confess to writing the letter, if somehow he could come out of this all right, he would change. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often from the goodness of his heart Baap would write the letter for only a rupee or two. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the drawer beneath the sink there were three pencils and he took one out and wrote in the log: Date unknown, probably June 4th or 5th. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could now spend the day reading, writing letters, discussing issues with my comrades, or formulating legal briefs. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They wrote boring in giant letters. I don’t know how long you’ve been lying there, but if you burned...or tanned...or whatever...” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The only requirement: fifty pages by the end of the year, written from the heart. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I never thought she really wanted me to write about my family life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some folks wrote so funny and spelt things different from what she knew about. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Addie sits there on her bed staring at me until I tell her to stop it, at which point she starts writing, too. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote that there needed to be “full disclosure of facts necessary to an informed consent.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Hugo had continued thinking about the note that it would eventually write. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

Sequoyah’s example can serve as a model for how idea diffusion probably led to many writing systems of ancient times as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kathy had started a Web site for me and asked me to write “copy” for it. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Phalanxifor had introduced a measure of ambiguity to my cancer story, but I was different from Augustus: My final chapter was written upon diagnosis. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Roza scooped her ancient flowered bag off the belt and trailed the students to a man who held a placard with the name of the university written on it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He wrote 7 as the answer to question number 1. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled out the piece of paper where the vet had written down Radar’s address. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

He wrote it down, closed his notebook, and switched off his tape recorder. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You expect me to believe that your father wrote this?” he said. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Under the header, I write: “We’ll spend less time watching TV.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Dad thought it was great that I was writing a weekly column about, as he put it, the skinny dames and the fat cats. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Always, as I wrote, I was both reader and writer, both the con- ceiver of the action and the appreciator of it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ll write Granny tonight,” he said, his eyes lit with surprise. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could even say he never wrote that on the grocery sack, that I’d wrote it myself. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That was cool. I want to be a writer, too. And a ballet dancer. I’m going to write stories and make ballets about them.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Over the next few weeks, I sometimes catch Madge backward writing again in class. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

All the growned folks that hadn’t never learnt to read nor write whilst they were ’slaved in America had to take lessons at the schoolhouse at night. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

There are remarkable children who very early are able to write publicly about their personal lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before Maurice’s talk, I had worried about the possibility that the gene might be fantastically irregular,” Watson would later write. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Kaiserman had only a fleeting moment, if not just a split second, to observe the situation, and he was involved in a major collision himself,” Bunderson wrote in his motion. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

So far you truly have keen a great source of comfort to me, and so has Kitty, whom I now write to regularly. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

And in their final report to the government, Tocqueville and Beaumont wrote, One cannot see the prison of Sing-Sing and the system of labour which is there established without being struck by astonishment and fear. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next Wednesday, I wrote an essay for Mrs. Baker about what Shakespeare wanted to express about being a human being in Romeo and Juliet. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I discover that writing is like applying leeches to my mind, curing its grief and drawing out humors that cloud my understanding. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She writes about the huge tomatoes and the cheap bread. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The fish tank took up half the desk space, and there was still room for writing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made her tell me one last time, and I wrote down her answers so I could look back at them when I wanted to. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

It was written in neat script and was dated November 27, 1931. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

He had lifelong correspondents, he had fans, he had critics, he had people who wrote asking to meet him, to give him gifts, to take his photograph. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was only one letter to sweat over and to wonder about the woman who could write down such words, let alone do what she had done and promised more of. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It had been a wonderful day,” he later wrote. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Charles wrote about this incident in his account of the voyage, which would be published soon after his marriage to Emma. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had written three such stories which were marked "C” instead of the usual "A.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But one thing was quite clear....” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I wonder if any of those people clothed in their masks and costumes, hustling about the city, are the Edna who wrote to me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The writer is entertained by what he writes; he believes none of it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we get back home, I write about all the things I observed at the march. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

‘It did not occur to him,’ writes Tolstoy of Andrei, ‘that he was in love with Miss Rostov.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Writing Cop told him, “These are kids. You’re”—he glanced at his writing pad—“an adult by law.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Now — very carefully — ” Finally it was completely written, Prudence, in quite respectable letters, without a single blot. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Her disappointment is written heavily across her shoulders. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

At the top of the stairs is another door, with a frosted window on which the word “Office” is written in black letters. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She even started writing in one back to front. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He could hear what was said over the telephone,” another detective wrote in his report, adding that the undercover “man will make good I think but will need some coaching.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She wrote a quick effusive thank-you note and gave it to the driver; if Ezeka had done this to further show how superior he was, it did not dampen her pleasure. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Maybe you could write to me one more time, too? P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

To substitute their may be politically correct, but for now it’s grammatically impaired, especially in writing. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thank you for the good wishes, I have never been happier in my life, he'd written. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For sure, the icing made all the difference, but Stella wasn’t sure how to make her writing like creamed sugar. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Zakariyya had told Deborah he wanted to read the Johns Hopkins Magazine story I wrote about their mother before he’d talk to me, and he wanted me sitting next to him while he read it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

"You must write your lady mother, and your brother, the eldest . . . what is his name?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All this talk of writing down goals was making me anxious. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wilson had them all write him a haiku, because Mark loved haiku so much. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When Blaine came home, she sat at the dining table, watching him chop fresh basil in the kitchen, and said, “If only the man who wrote this book could be the president of America.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was written in pencil on the desk blotter: “The little girl on the plane/ Who turned her doll’s head around/ To look at me.” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Come,” said she, “I will tell you something, in return for what you have told me. He did speak yesterday—that is, he wrote, and was refused.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

They wrote Caleb notes saying not even the Goodwill would want my clothes. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

My mother says anyone that writes such letters should be boiled in oil and have his fingernails pulled out by blind people. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

They remained optimistic that it could be fixed, and they talked about what the automaton might write once it was working again. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

There’s something happening every day, but I’m too tired and lazy to write it all down. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Over the whole mess, he had written in pencil Unknown. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once word got around, they feared, teachers and coaches would start writing the girls off. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Here it slowly curled and browned, until nothing remained of the writing but the almost illegible signature at the bottom. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ate a little, then went away to the library where I could be alone, where I would write. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Comstock had received some information,” a private detective wrote, noting that Comstock had reported that on May 14 an unidentified man had been seen lurking on the hill where Whitehorn’s body was subsequently found. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Maybe writing to him will actually help you figure out your own feelings. And maybe he is talking to you through sharks. Who am I to tell you you’re wrong?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Shakespeare wrote tragedies and comedies, so which do you feel like you’re in when he talks to you?” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Only to look down into the open suitcases, at the neatly folded black and gold uniforms, and see the labels on the handles, C. J. N. Kingshaw, Drummond's School, written in Mr Hooper’s handwriting. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

He blinked twice at Y. Then O, then at L...and I needed no more letters to finish writing YOLANDA. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harriet Blaine wrote her daughter of the dilemma: "Poor dear Gaffy, how wretched it is! Wounded and sore and hurt to the death, he now to save his life, must dare to lose it." Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“This is what you’ve been writing about for the past twelve months? Not.. .Jesus Christ?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The man writes something down on a piece of paper and then hands us each a brochure. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Especially in the experience of Japanese archaeologists, China is regarded as the source of cultural breakthroughs in East Asia, such as agriculture, writing, metallurgy, and everything else of significance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Fortunately, a porter—he gestured toward a young inmate cleaning the children’s play area—had written a love letter for him in Spanish. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wrote in the new name he wished to adopt, then signed the form with his old signature. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had written the full text of the cabin boy’s clue on the inside of the notebook’s front cover. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

I had to write my life story and give it to the interviewers. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa helps me sharpen them with his knife, and he doesn’t question me about my writing. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

After Atsbani wrote the real scores down, he told everyone to stay put, then left the room. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s stupid. Why would they pay money for some dude to sit there and listen to me? I'm fine, you know, playing the guitar and writing dark poetry, haha.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Though some have taken this tiny probability as an argument for “creation science,” the only thing it clearly indicates is that monkeys seldom write great plays. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fastest a human could run a mile, he wrote, was 4:01.6. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

I knew there could not be any minister, but the marriage ceremony was all written out in the back of the hymnal. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

No sunbathing, no singing, no lovers strolling the ramparts in the evenings—such rules are not written down, but they may as well be. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wrote, “A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might as well have been written in Chinese. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

I am an accepted future student of the NYU creative writing program. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The only thing that’s weird is a brief note written next to his interview score: Attention. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I spent the entire time alone writing in my notebook next to a waterfall. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The New York City public schools of the 1940s were considered the best schools in the country,” says Diane Ravitch, a professor at New York University who has written widely on the city’s educational history. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

So many Biblical names sound backward, like Rahab, I wonder sometimes if the whole thing was written by a mental freak like me. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

If that happens, I write, I will film it. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

“He needs to see a vet,” Dad says, concern written all over his face. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Will you give me leave to defer your raptures till I write again? At present I have not room to do them justice.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

How else could Dennis have tolerated my writing almost nothing in the weeks before the bombing? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before the storm, the committee wrote, the terrorists would be most likely to use the occasion “to observe precautionary measures to gauge emergency response resources and continuity of operation plans at critical infrastructures.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“What do you say about that? My Prudence’s name, written over and over. ’Tis a spell, that’s what it is! The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Quisling accepted the bouquet of strips, extending one to look at the letters written on it. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

At last he rose, half dressed and went into his study and sat at his typewriter, wondering what kind of letter he should write to her. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

In fact, I have to finish writing down Tla’s recipe on a card so I can start in on my thank-you notes. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If we do not deceive our own men,” Washington later wrote, “we will never deceive the enemy.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grab a pen from inside the chest drawer and write around the world. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Next in order come the Homeric Hymns, poems written to honor various gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll bet helpful things like that were not written down in my file. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In that case, find me something to write with. Let’s get started.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I never enjoyed housekeeping, and I’m going to take a vacation today, and read, write, go visiting, and amuse myself.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby could concentrate on puzzles or chess for hours, but he fidgeted and grew restless when confronted with reading, writing, and arithmetic. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So she wrote to the New York Times, attempting to set the record straight. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He looks at my days away from work, for which I have written the excuse “woman’s problems.” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Notice that you can't avoid double sharps or double flats by writing the note on a different space or line. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

“To succeed in those days, you had to fight for everything you got,” Arcaro wrote in his autobiography, I Ride to Win! Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Placing the box on the counter, he handed the man a ball-point pen, Snuffy made a shaky X, and Nick wrote in his name. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I always thought my cousin, that poor spinster girl, was writing them.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found no living family members, and as is true for much of history, there exists little written record of poor people’s lives. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps you will be so amiable as to write me down the name and address of your sister?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Blessed Love! Am I wicked to be glad you are missing me? But if I hadn’t come away, I couldn’t have known you’d write me such darling letters, could I?” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Some wrote small and cramped; others, loose and sprawling. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had to write her life story, all I could say is that her husband could talk to animals, and that I should never love anything as much as she loved me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But even as I write these words, something inside shouts that there is more. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, since swing is a technique that is ‘felt’ by the player in performance rather than written down and rehearsed methodically like most of music’s other rhythmic features, its application is deliberately non-standardised. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the next day or two Frodo went through his papers and his writings with Sam, and he handed over his keys. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The fields are cultivated with horse plows while books are written by machinery. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

A chatterbox, what can you write about that? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In all respect, thy friend, Luke Stevens What had Charlie said to the man to make him dare write such a letter? Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

We used to play a game where every day I'd ask her to name a book and then tell me the name of the person who wrote it. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

But then he wrote that Sakubva, the town where I was sending his letters, was a high-density suburb and filled with poor people and crime, like LA. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

For the next three weeks, while Baba goes to and from his job, and my sister reads and writes in that diary of hers, I focus on Marcia. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then write the correct letter name above each note. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

I wondered whether he had been able to write during the five years, or rather, whether he had been able to publish. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He could write her an apology from the safety of his study. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Margot and I have been writing each other notes, just for fun, of course. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I want to get up and write it down and tack it to the wall. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When we got home, I wrote the signs I wanted in my lined-paper tablet with the Indian head on the front, using the pencil Grandma sharpened for me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Not that it’s hard, since we don’t write all that often. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And my feet—the trouble I’m having with my feet—I could write songs about the pain my feet give me—maybe your scar is like that. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

In my head I remember what one teacher told me: If you can talk, you can write. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I wish I could say that this is a difficult letter for me to write but in fact it is not. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had read a history of the Civil War and the author had written about the men being “cut down by fire.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

‘And I is still reading it and teaching new words to myself and how to write them. It is the most scrumdiddlyumptious story.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Figure 1.29: D sharp and E flat look very different when written in common notation, but they sound exactly the same when played on a piano. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He took up his pen again and wrote: I understand HOW: I do not understand WHY. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

There were always more fascinating things to watch and record, more people to help write everything down. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Twice a month, Constantine wrote me back on parchment paper that folded into an envelope. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

So the nurse wrote the alphabet on a piece of paper and I pointed at letters. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Then she turned to the pages where the family names were written in a long column with places to the right for dates of birth, marriage, and death. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse had written about football, which he really hated, but he had enough brains to know that if he said drawing, everyone would laugh at him. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

For the first days since the beginning I can write three or four pages on my subject and then another page of breezy analysis in less than an hour. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I began to write, weaving the strands I’d found in Hume’s Principles of Morals with filaments from Mill’s The Subjection of Women. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Transcribing the oral number system into written form was a simple task: people just needed to figure out a coding method whereby scribes could set the numbers down in a more permanent form. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

How simply it ended—my father writing his permission. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I only heard of him there, her mother wrote. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I mean, I'm constantly forgetting my email password, so I have it written down in a notebook. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But at half past one, Mr. Kreuk comes to my desk and shows me the draft of the notice: I’d written the wrong address for the church. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Still, we were united by a common respect for the written word and for scholarship. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tipped it against the page and started to write the date, but it came out a squiggly mess. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mrs. V, as promised, writes down names of species and takes pictures so I can remember when we get back home. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She suggested that writing might be one of the best vehicles for some of my students to escape their horrific environments and personal demons. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The advice in this and other stylebooks is not so much on how to write as on how to revise. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“No wonder we missed it,” Minho said, furiously writing down notes and dimensions, his best attempt at a diagram. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

At first I don’t want Imani’s help—I want to write essays perfectly by myself. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

As the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss put it, ancient writing’s main function was “to facilitate the enslavement of other human beings.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On a piece of paper, he drew up a roster of buddies, and he wrote down the order of entry, the sequence in which they would be inserted into the building. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1983 T. Berry Brazel- ton wrote that a baby arrives in the world “beautifully prepared for the role of learning about him- or herself and the world all around.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I shall be writing tonight for the last time.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

The white reporters wrote my words down and behaved as if what I said was very important. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept meaning to write letters to her friends from her old school. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He ran a hand over his books lined on the shelf and then began to search for the sheets where he had written notes for his piece about ogbunigwe, the fantastic Biafran-made land mines. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She also found the Washington Post story I wrote about Shin, which quoted him saying he would like to have a girlfriend, but didn’t know how to find one. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

In his memoirs, Reagan wrote, "I intended to let the Soviets know that we were going to spend what it took to stay ahead of them in the arms race." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Your mother secured a job, and I followed, stowed away almost, because no one in New York, at that time, was paying for me to write much of anything. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She wrote with an endearing, intelligent voice, and her entries were filled with self-deprecating humor and witty, sardonic asides. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Run up on me and get done up,” I mutter, and write it. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Clara wrote small cards to each of her loved ones, of whom there were many, and secretly placed them in a box beneath her bed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor requested me to write in his pocket notebook, my name, and regiment and some sentiment. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

And on the table was the chalkboard, on which was written, in Greek, “Good morning, sis.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He drove over last Saturday with this English babe that's in this new picture he's writing. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

Quinn wrote a list of names on a sheet of paper. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

"God, don't write that, my mom might find it." Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

I wrote Y=42 under my scribbled out equation. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Molly is suddenly struck by the fact that Vivian wrote these words on this sheet of paper more than eighty years ago. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was bent over, his glasses slipping down his nose, his left hand curled around so he could write properly. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I walk into the lobby, where someone reassembled the portrait of Jeanine Matthews, but they drew an X over each of her eyes in red paint and wrote “Faction scum” across the bottom. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I finish writing, throw the paper in my drawer, and run out of the house. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I fell on it. . . write that I fell on it.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He writes to him, begging Theo to let him know how his foot is, what the doctor says. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“There,” he says, pointing, and in the margin I see it, written in the same ink as the hair on the Venus. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t I buy both and if you’ll share them with me, we can decide which is better. Can you spare an hour? Or do you have to run back to your writing?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Inside the briefcase he had notebooks, each one in a plastic bag, and he took one out now with a pencil and began to write carefully. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

I want to ask about the hospital, but I’m worried if I ask anything he’ll go quiet and disappear, so instead I write: How should we celebrate? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Her handwriting was neat, and I could read what she’d written: Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Not only did we have advanced academic classes, we were also taught time-management skills, essay writing, and public speaking. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

It was a relief not to be writing out the she saids, or describing the weather or the onset of spring or her heroines face—beauty, she had discovered, occupied a narrow band. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m writing to your sister, Florence. You got anything you want me to say?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Meggie's mother came up to him and mimed writing with her finger in the air. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

While writing it I had again and again a sense of Arek’s presence, as if I should see him if I turned. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Really, I am writing to keep myself from crying. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my pencil I wrote in a determined scrawl across the face of the ballots: I Protest This Fraud I knew that my gesture was futile. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Adams, on the other hand, he claimed that his remarks on the Davila essays had been misconstrued, that he was actually “not referring to any writing that I might suppose to be yours.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

They wrote to each other frequently, and over the years their re-lationship matured. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the note was written two weeks ago. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

I then wrote her a letter going over some of what we had discussed, and reminding her of how much I cared for her, how unshakable our bond was, how courageous she was. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We needed to interview more students, in other words, before writing them off. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I wrote back to tell them that the nature of my defense would become clear to them when I filed my papers — and not until then. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

No doubt Reilly could have stayed on the East Coast, writing one paper after another in air-conditioned comfort on this or that particular problem. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

That wandering about of things was even more exasperating when she sat down to write. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A fellow named Thomas Paine wrote the little book. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reorganized my suitcase after the transaction, looking for paper to write a letter to Mother. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“With this money she was able to enjoy a prosperous life,” Jefferson wrote. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“Do you remember that you promised to write to me when you went away?” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tell Sam, “We used to do each other’s assignments. I would draw for Lee Lee, and she would write for me.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He wrote, “Do you want something to eat?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he avoided the tender subject altogether, wrote philosophical notes to Jo, turned studious, and gave out that he was going to ‘dig’, intending to graduate in a blaze of glory. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The revolutionary element he introduced into the sacred music he wrote at Notre-Dame was something he’d clearly learnt from the troubadours, who had in turn picked it up from Spain: rhythm. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The grief counselor suggested that he try to channel his grief through writing songs. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

“I kind of want to keep writing to him,” I told Grandma. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then he wrote on a pad of paper, ‘Tonight.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Vincent isn’t yet an artist when he writes those words to Theo, but he paints the scene perfectly, with color, light, composition, emotion—a landscape of memory. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

A few weeks later, after the Nazis surrendered, Elizebeth wrote to Barbara about “a thrilling sight:—Lights on again in Washington. The Capitol. The Monument.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Bilbo was busy: writing invitations, ticking off answers, packing up presents, and making some private preparations of his own. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The Nazi wrote down my name and number and nodded me on. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

The next napkin is written in a spiral, in tiny letters. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

After it was written, it could be translated. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

At summer camp, when the other girls in my cabin were practicing choreography for “It’s a Hard Knock Life,” I was writing letters to Maddy. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He scowled when he saw the policeman write down “foreman” instead. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

For my part, I wrote few postcards or faxes to anybody. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Lurz asked, running his finger down a list of names written in careful script next to page numbers. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“His face seemed to be grayer and his patent leather hair thinner,” one of the journalists, Stanley Karnow, later wrote. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Their spread was soon followed by that of other innovations originating in or near the Fertile Crescent, including the wheel, writing, metalworking techniques, milking, fruit trees, and beer and wine production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

People could write new applications that allowed selected systems to work together, but in general this was limited to planned exchanges between PCs within the network of a single company. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s like his writing,” faltered Meg, comparing it with the note in her hand. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to keep the fire going for a while, Jeth, and do a little writing. Sleep well.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Here one was sure to meet scholars, philosophers, philanthropists, judges, bishops, clergymen, and statesmen,” Elizabeth wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Every year we spend hundreds of dollars on phone calls and letters, writing, faxing, cajoling, and bribing, trying to get out of the pilgrimage to Mommy’s tiny house in Ewing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They even confiscated letters that William had written, some dating back to the Riverbank years. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I do my evening things—writing in my journal and reading a novel— then turn out the lights and sit for a while by the open door for some air. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Please, Christopher, write to me sometime, or ring me on the telephone. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was her last wish to see her daughter again, so her father wrote to Anna, begging her to take what money she had and come to America. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s actually commandments. God wrote ten of them so people would know what to do.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You helping me write mine. And hers she gone tell you, while you write it down.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Just write whatever you want,” Levi says with a fake smile, and I notice the gap between his front teeth. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What else?” he said as he wrote, not even turning around. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

I write it again on the siding by the back door and the stone and the pear trees that line the back path. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I know it’s been hard for her, but she’s been great in English. Her writing is gorgeous and funny and detailed. She’s a tremendous reader.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We write her a note, you see, and pretend it’s from Willard.” Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

My attempts were so shaky, so misshapen, so ugly, it looked like I’d interpreted running writing to mean writing done while running in a race. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

“I found a guy on the Internet to write me a prescription for horse diet pills.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

A few days after the mill was running, Alice poked her head in the door of my tree while I was writing. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

One-third of all Linear B tablets from the palace of Knossos are accountants’ records of sheep and wool, while an inordinate proportion of writing at the palace of Pylos consists of records of flax. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mr Farraday will usually have just returned from his short walk on the downs at that point, so he is rarely engrossed in his reading or writing as he tends to be in the evenings. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

I reread what I had written, and as I did so my scorn gave way to a sense of irony. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“We were a tiny speck in the vast vista of the sea,” Shackleton wrote later. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I signed it and asked him for two telegraph forms, and wrote a message to the Hotel Montoya, telling them to forward all mail and telegrams for me to this address. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t know the money for my fare is growing in the post office and she’d die if she knew what I was earning from writing threatening letters. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The woman frowns slightly, but keeps writing, and without looking up she says, "And when do you expect Bobby to come home?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

You put them on your refrigerator, and then you write poems while you make a sandwich. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

We’ll write each other, of course, and maybe visit, but Hill House is not forever, you know.” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

And now I’m wondering if I should just write the letter, even though you’re dead and most likely buried on that island. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then, Charles wrote to one of his sisters, Jenny “threw herself on her back, kicked & cried, precisely like a naughty child.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Individuals wrote that their families were praying for Garfield's recovery. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Above his head, someone had written the words I am. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z