Perhaps that was why his Igbo words flowed into each other, as if writing his speech would result in a single long word. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, neither would I have replied to anyone writing me something as wild as “the white man is the devil.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was writing another article, on a passage in Avodah Zarah, which, he said, he was only now beginning to understand, and he needed one of the journal collections. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Malcolm had copied it so that he didn’t have to keep unfolding the paper in the acorn, but even writing the words out himself didn’t help make much sense of them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Manna did fall from the Montana sky—at least from writing about living beneath it. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The scratched writing on my cupboard wall floats before me, left by an unknown woman, with the face of Moira. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glance at Bob English Who Draws and see that he isn’t writing either. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

A lot of them aren’t so much interested in getting their car washed as they are in writing a check. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The other day, when Sister asked if I was still writing these letters, I tried to play it off—I tried to be like, Sometimes. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

He did not mind writing garden club features, school board reports, horse show notices, golden anniversary announcements—he pruned them as carefully as he pruned his hedges, rounding them toward perfection. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel That would fix a lot of people. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“White,” I say, “and there’s writing....Have a Nice Day or something like that....” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

You have to wonder where you've gone wrong when twice a day you're offered writing advice from men in funny hats. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I thought about maybe writing for magazines just so I could see an article that didn’t say things like I mentioned before. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mom put the Boggle grid down with the letter cubes in place, and we all started writing, the only sound the scratching of pencils on paper. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The rules were, in fact, so simple that Francis considered writing them up under the title, “Fourier Transforms for the Birdwatcher.” Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Ms. Dale doesn’t care to hear Axel’s reasons for not writing the report based on this technicality. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

If I am caught writing this I will be in trouble, whoever catches me—German, French, British. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Cherokee writing remains one of the best-attested examples of a script that arose through idea diffusion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He got up from the writing table—rather slowly, for him—and, taking his cigar stub with him, reassumed his one-foot-up stance at the window seat. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Look, this is something I want you to see. Quite by accident I discovered this writing beneath where Martin’s picture once hung.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

It’s all so on target, it makes me wonder if Shakespeare was writing from experience. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I am an accepted future student of the NYU creative writing program. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Along one wall was a chest of drawers and a mirror, on the other a writing desk with a chair tucked underneath. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

He had finally gotten the hang of his journal, writing things that bordered on thoughtful—but it was still just a sham. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I do my writing either at Dar es Salaam or in England, in the dear old Birches where I grew up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Who are you writing letters to?” she asked, and it still wasn’t too late. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Soon, some of them were writing on the envelopes, and others were cutting and curling pieces of tissue, gluing them into flower shapes, and stringing them together to form fluffy garlands. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

By the ease with which the man was writing, she could tell she was now making perfect sense. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Dear Jshmael, These things are very difficult to say—I can’t think of anything more painful to me than writing this letter to you. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In addition, the forms of Mesoamerican writing signs were entirely different from those of any Old World script. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I almost didn’t answer him but since I didn’t want to look so stupid I said, “Yes, sir, but mine have writing and numbers on them too.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

First Momma started writing in a notebook and adding things up and subtracting things, then Dad and Joey and Rufus and me started driving all over Flint buying things for the Brown Bomber. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Preserved Maya writing was similarly devoted to propaganda, births and accessions and victories of kings, and astronomical observations of priests. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I concentrated on the letter I was writing to Mama and Papa. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

"Okay, you're shy about public speaking, but how does that apply to writing down the answers? If you can read, then you can write, right?" Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Waiting for a child to die is not an occasion for writing a poem here in Kilanga: it isn’t a long enough wait. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m at the top of the second page when it dawns on me that this letter I’m writing is kind of a horrible burden. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

We had just finished writing all our research as questions on the trivia cards. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“She kept writing in her book. And she kept working up the courage to show it to somebody. And then she just stopped.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hillingham, 24 August.—I must imitate Mina, and keep writing things down. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Already those who could see the writing on the wall were torching their own property for the insurance money before it became worthless. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Tell him it’s someone he did not see, I’m writing in my diary when there’s a knock on the door. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

I looked up from the letter I was writing to Charlie and turned my attention outward. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Drawing on his business, writing, and directing experience, Houseman became a skillful theatre producer. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The bottle he’s holding has fancy writing on it. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She wondered whether having final responsibility for someone, even a creature like a horse or a dog, was fundamentally opposed to the wild and inward journey of writing. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For Schubert, the birds, the bees, the woods and the trees came into their own above all in song- writing, at which he was simply unmatched before the twentieth century. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Sleep—Lights out around 10 p.m., but I can stay up in the bathroom reading or writing, provided—Mami does love a lecture—that I am very quiet, so as not to bother the Mancinis. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I hope it will be a long time between this writing and when Hoyt has to read it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I have so many feelings I’m afraid I won’t be able to stop writing. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I had neatly solved a problem that had been worrying me for a long time, and now' I thought that I could turn my energies to writing and justify myself. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spend a good chunk of time for the next two days writing a proposal for an interior garden at our building. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

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

When I started back to school again, I tried to limit my reading to two books a week, and I filled my time by writing furiously. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Why would a murderer fool around writing messages about a missing toy? The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

When it was bedtime, I climbed in with my notebook to keep writing. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The part about writing a letter wasn’t too scary. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The writing is indecipherable, not because Margo’s handwriting is bad, but because on top of the horizontal lines of text, writing also goes vertically down the page. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The development of writing in Zapotec society went hand-in-hand with growing urbanization. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I was made for writing in a diary. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I was a bom-and-bred Catholic and thought immediately it was some sort of writing stigmata and that I should get to a church. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I did not feel any great pride in my writings, however. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was still about a minute before the bell would ring and the teacher was busy writing the day’s lesson on the chalkboard. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

In the late 1950s, White contemplated writing a story to document the case. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Nonetheless, Helmuth remained true to his pact, accepting full responsibility for writing and distributing the leaflets. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

In contrast, the New World’s sole writing systems, those of Mesoamerica, never spread to the complex Andean and eastern U.S. societies that might have adopted them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice, echoing through the house, and down the garden, careless and familiar like the writing in the book. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m so sorry. Taking your notebook and keeping it from you, writing you all those notes without telling you who I was, that was wrong. Really, really wrong, and I’m so, so sorry.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The disk’s writing medium was clay, which is much bulkier and heavier than paper. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Vivi, thankfully, is lying on her bed, writing a letter in green ink with drawings of hearts and stars and faces in the margins. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“What is this writing?” asks my mother in Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I go back to the map, to Ben’s writing on the other side, the first chance I’ve had to look at it under something besides a flashlight, which ain’t really for reading. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then he stared at her mother’s tiny writing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Derek was sitting on his bed by the fire, feeding an occasional stick to the fire to keep it going, writing in his notebook. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

For Western musicians, an introduction to ragas, that is neither too vague nor too technical, does not seem to be available as of this writing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the skill of public writing was gradually developed by the many classroom papers I had to compose. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One argument mathematicians cite for not writing for a larger audience is the esoteric nature of their work. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

If she were writing about herself, she wouldn’t put in the bad parts, only the good. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But Professor Snape sets so much of it, and writing the essay in two different ways. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Over at the writing table, Zooey, pressing down heavily with his pencil, was filling in the “o”s on the advertisement side of a small blotter. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

A young member of Partners in Health, or PIH-er in Farmer speak, was there to help him with the grant writing. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

All students were directed instead to participate in the movement by writing big posters, da-zi- bao, criticizing the educational system. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Shut up in the bathroom, she would release herself from the torment of a hopeless passion by writing feverish letters, which she finally hid in the bottom of her trunk. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m writing to you while drawing and I’m in a hurry to get back to it, so good-night, and send the sheets as soon as possible.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

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

Life without writing doesn’t feel worth living to me. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He took back his hands and wrote, “It’s made things easier. Instead of writing yes and no all the time, I can show my hands.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

A faint grating noise came from within the room, and it was not, I was certain, the sound of someone writing in a ledger. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She was shut up; she could not speak; in those days there was no writing. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Madam came down the stairs, one hand on the railing, the other holding a sheet of paper, half-covered with writing. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess so,” I said, though I was too busy writing to really think about it. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Speaking of, any chance your mom would be into writing me a rec letter for college? The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I spent the evening watching state-controlled television and writing letters home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What do you think he means by writing inside the house twice?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Besides reading, writing, and the study of history and the stars Robin was given certain duties in the routine of the church. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

The opening words were Elvish, like the writing on the arch: that seems certain.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

‘I have thought once or twice about writing him a note and seeing if he could give me information.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every Friday and Saturday he stands outside with his stack of writings about what prayer and God can do to change your life. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Man, ever since he caught me writing something in Daddy’s notebook while I was waiting for Mama, he’s been asking me the same question all the time. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Who would go to the trouble of writing and sending such a letter? Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

By the time I finished writing up the Misbehavior Report, the sergeant for my shift had left. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah, it’s coming. Watch out for it. And I’m also writing a piece about the princess industrial complex,” I say, starting to feel comfortable and finally eating my food like a normal person. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, we are still not able to read the writings left behind from those ancient cities. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I see a couple of letters with the wiggly writing. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The experiment that led to writing Black Like Me was done at the very end of 1959, before the first “freedom rides” or any other manifestation of national concern about racial injustice. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“After all that time we spent writing that speech?” she says. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She believed that Gene Johnson, her collaborator, had difficulty writing papers. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charlotte decided to use her dry thread for writing the new message. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Other times he would sit at the desk without a smile, writing silently while cigarette smoke filled the apartment. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He claimed to be writing a Family Biography that the Family would have to pay him not to publish. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Hopefully, meeting Jopie and Lies will get them excited about starting our new writing project—and reaffirm the power of the written word. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I watched him practice writing his name in the dirt. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Allen was always writing down things Arnold said. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Which is, of course, something to give any normal fainthearted man, and particularly a writing man, pause. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

From Vespers until the early bedtime he served his turn in the scriptorium, where all the writing was done. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

Beneath his paw there was writing carved into the dust-covered wall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I kept writing my memo to the Atlanta Police Department and before I knew it I had typed close to nine pages outlining all the things I thought had gone wrong. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

I have no friends so I spend all my time alone writing cool blog posts and vintage shopping and taking pretty pictures. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I go to the door when she’s using the bathroom, and she never looks over my shoulder when I’m writing, those are two more rules. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

By writing worthless checks right around the clock, he expected to haul in three, maybe four thousand dollars within a twenty-four-hour period. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that Blanca would soon get up from the computer and ask me why I wasn’t writing my paper. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

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

Shirley spent the weekend after Thanksgiving writing a ten-page letter to her cousins in Chinese describing her debut onstage as a turkey. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Stuart forgot, in the excitement of writing Harriet, that he did not own a canoe. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

So I go back to writing down words that are songs and stories and whole new worlds tucking themselves into my memory. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Thus, the developmental sequence of uses for alphabetic writing was the reverse of that for the earlier systems of logograms and syllabaries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

This was worse than writing the report, worse than standing up to give it. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a relief to be able to say what I felt, even in writing, without worrying that I might get myself or someone else into trouble. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When I get home Prof. Nemur and Dr. Strauss are waiting for me and they give me a beating for writing dirty things in the progress report. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Chinese writing is not purely logographic, nor is English writing purely alphabetic. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wonder what he would say if he knew I was writing to you. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the histories of Native American wheels and writing exemplify the principles illustrated in a more extreme form by true island societies. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Now I have had to humiliate myself by writing to the editor of The New Democracy to tell him that the pamphlet, although challenging, was written by the wrong people. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

One such technological innovation was the use of flat clay tablets as a convenient writing surface. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

So much for having friends. up, Dr. Golan’s function seemed mainly to consist of writing prescriptions. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Guess she does! She knows just what folks like, and gets paid well for writing it.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

No more writing songs in my apartment, songs that no one would hear. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked over Immie’s writing style in emails and on Instagram: the way she signed off, the way she wrote paragraphs, the expressions she used. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I called a few colleges in New York and asked about writing programs. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I look at Jamie, but he's already busy writing his wish down, covering his paper with a cupped hand and making a goofy face at me when he catches me looking. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Dear Brother Adam,” the letter said, “I take my pen in hand to hope you are in good health”—he always started this way to ease himself gently into the task of writing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

By the 600s, the doctors at the school were writing about a medicine from India named sharkara or, as the Persians called it, shaker— sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Working too hard. You’d think he was writing a whole cyclopaedia instead of just one book.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The school was strong in literature but just seemed so-so in creative writing. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Hoagland had always let everyone there know how good I was at writing the daily register. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe their answer will be the clue I need to figure out which one of the “Fabulous Five” is writing to me. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The mechanical man hadn’t been writing ... it was drawing! The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

“I work at Nsukka University and I have traveled throughout the Eastern region. I’m writing a book about the area. And my fiancée is from Umunnachi, not too far from you.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Some of the students looked uncomfortable, like they might be embarrassed for Emily; others were writing in their notebooks, possibly copying Mr. Quisling’s board work. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

But even though the Guardian had kept her busy, Cara had not stopped writing The Landry News, and she had not stopped printing it. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

A year after my graduation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a terrible mistake was made and I was offered a position teaching a writing workshop. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Embedded in the walls were stone slabs like the ones we’d seen in the crypt, but older, the writing mostly worn away. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Of course, there’s nothing in writing that says all this. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Farmer seemed to know everything about a country that baffled me on many levels, and his insights helped me with the article I was writing. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

I have loved your e-mails about England and they have been so good for me, in so many ways, and I cannot thank you enough for writing them. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I am writing a letter to him to tell him that, too. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was absolutely nothing in the room, book, newspaper, or even writing materials; so I opened another door in the room and found a sort of library. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

After making sure Ma is still asleep, I keep writing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He was writing a book on how colored people live and he says somebody stole all the facts he’d found. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The mother was fierce in her son’s defense, saying that it was dangerous to have a fountain when children were about, and that she was writing to the M.P. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cadaver told me about her and my father writing to each other, and about how my father needed to get away from Bybanks for a while. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I have the perfect idea,” Jasmine says, and I know she’s thinking about writing something about the ensemble. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I can’t remember exactly, because I had no way of writing it down. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shorthand terms are unobjectionable, indeed indispensable, when a term has become entrenched in the community one is writing for. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

He’s talking to a policeman who is writing things down in a spiral notebook. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Muhammad, to whom I was writing daily, had no idea of what a new world had opened up to me through my efforts to document his teachings in books. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I see her clearly, sitting at a desk in her new room at the Chrysanthemum Teahouse, writing this letter. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

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

Esteban put his hands in his pockets and pulled them inside out to show us the money you can’t get from writing poetry. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

This explanation was suggested by the undoubted fact that the earliest known empires and writing systems arose in the Tigris and Euphrates Valleys of the Fertile Crescent and in the Nile Valley of Egypt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the feelings of uncertainty about doing the show disappeared, like someone had taken an eraser to writing on a chalkboard. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

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

I cracked it open and saw writing on the inside cover. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In January, she scribbled, “I am writing this in the dark because I’m afraid of what Dad will do if he sees that the light is on.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There’s writing on the little packets but the words make no sense to me and I can’t risk taking the tranquilizer that knocked out Manchee. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

And then, while writing, a new and thrilling relationship would spring up under the drive of emotion, coalescing and telescoping alien facts into a known and felt truth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to talk to Coach in private, but he was writing in his playbook, probably making last-minute changes to our game plan while he ate his eggs. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

“I just can’t imagine my mom ever writing a student council election speech for me.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

She knows that I spend months at a time ‘writing,’ but she does not press me for information. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here is another cliche my creative writing teacher would have scoffed at; like father, like son. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a kind of wild, soaring experience to be able to hold a pen again and look into a book or at a piece of paper with writing on it. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’ll be writing to your parents and letting them know as much. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

“Remember those messages I showed you on the Hideout wall on game night—the mysterious person I’m writing to? I want to find out who it is.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

O’Brien talked to her now and again when he saw her on the street, and started writing down everything she said, trying to piece together enough information to determine her true age. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about him writing that—knowing that I would see it, that I would read those words and they would kill me, and writing it anyway. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beneath our feet, stretching from wall to wall, were marble slabs chiseled with writing. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

My mom interrupts my eating and writing for a variation on our usual conversation. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I see you guys all writing and writing and I want to do that too. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

A common error in student writing is to shift the tense from a main clause to a subordinate one even when they refer to the same time period. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The thought of writing a public apology was galling to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

So it went on—a profession older than writing and one that will probably survive when the written word has disappeared. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d promised to finish a book he was writing and needed to get away from the daily, ongoing demands of leadership in the civil rights movement. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“They buy millions of them. There are lots of writers who make millions by writing romance novels.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you going to forbid me from writing?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

But lesser failures of coherence are among the commonest flaws in writing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I recorded everything carefully, writing in minute detail. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

As of this writing, the outcome of that investigation is still pending. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mostly, I’m thinking and writing in my diary—our diary, Akeelma’s and mine. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

The only thing I’ve ever felt that way about is writing poetry, and that can never go anywhere. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

I can hear her voice as I read her writing. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Be pretentious in your writing and toss in an occasional e.g. or i.e. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Henrietta Lacks died decades before I began writing this book, I relied on interviews, legal documents, and her medical records to re-create scenes from her life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Darcy was writing, and Miss Bingley, seated near him, was watching the progress of his letter, and repeatedly calling off his attention by messages to his sister. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I tear off a piece of butcher paper, get my pen, and when I’m done writing, I fold the paper twice and walk outside. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Food and writing are how our moms met,” I said, trying to change the subject. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There are no rules for graceful writing, at least not in the sense that there are rules for grammar and punctuation. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually you get to Paul writing letters to the Ephesians and it loses the plot, but the Old Testament and the Gospels? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The limited uses and users of early writing suggest why writing appeared so late in human evolution. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I thought writing to my fave female filmmakers would be way more fun than writing to myself. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I decided my biggest writing problem was that I didn't have anything worthwhile to write about. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I just started writing: -School starts in five days. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

He had watched Miss K multiply by writing squiggles with chalk on the blackboard. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Rather, they put food on the table by teaching chess, giving exhibitions, operating chess parlors, selling chess sets, and writing books and magazine articles that received small advances. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Baelor the Blessed had ordered all Barth’s writings destroyed when he came to the Iron Throne. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Plus, now she's writing a book about girls who are married off when they're young—yes, that still happens—so she stays locked in her office, popping out every now and then for snacks. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I load up the new email account, with the intention of writing Rhiannon back. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He is sitting with his quill and paper, writing. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I should like to be,” said I, glancing at the slate as he held it; with a misgiving that the writing was rather hilly. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

By an hour after dawn the first flats were mounded over, and the foreman, a white man, stood writing Roman numerals in a black book beside the name of each picker. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“How many times do we have to tell you, no writing on the Scrabble board! Do you need pencil and paper?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

As she walked to the parking lot, five or six kids who had just finished writing their sentences for Mrs. Granger came out another door. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The merchant passed on to him the writing of important letters and orders, and grew accustomed to conferring with him about all important affairs. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Wait! I can just make it out ‘Property of’—the writing is so tiny!—‘Property of the Alacran Estate.’ The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

So I’m going to keep on writing like everything is normal. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I was already keeping reading and writing poems a secret; I would just add dancing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I want her to make fun of me for writing poems in my notebook. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He might be writing you directly as soon as he has anything. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nor, I think, did he want to fit himself into some conception of himself he read in my writing. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“What was it you wanted to show me? Oh, yes—the fancy writing. Really nice. Lucky you to find it. Come and see me again soon, all right? I get so bored in that office.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She won a full scholarship by writing an essay on the pressure of writing an essay. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The class set to work, writing to the editor, explaining that the story he published about the mouse exhibit was not true. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was writing his name, one of the few things he recalled from school. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

Riddle’s reply came quickly, his writing becoming untidier, as though he was hurrying to tell all he knew. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

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

A theme or topic may run through a long stretch of writing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“That plane writing up there,” Bigger said, pointing. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The writing was so small we could not read it without a strong magnifier. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mom was also hard at work on her writing. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Looking back, I stopped writing in my notebook when I stopped wanting to know myself anymore. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed and thought about writing back to him. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Back to letter writing. Okay, I’m getting good at that.” Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“Don’t believe all those nasty things people are writing about you kids on the Web. They’re just jealous.” Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Some banter on boogers, and everyone wanted to know what secret things Fatima Moss was always writing. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

And you think writing a novel is more important than anything I like to do, or want to do with my life. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was wonderful to be able to read and write again, and I didn’t mind it at all that my first reading and writing in fifteen days was being done over final examinations. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Through their writing, they discovered they shared a common identity, which united them into a community that connected them, not separated them from the world. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

“Why don’t we go out to the playground to see what everybody else is writing?” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d probably open it and read it and tell me I was too young to be writing to a boy. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was also a major literary figure of the Restoration period, writing on many subjects, including works of fiction. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Strange sorcerous writings had been cut into the bands that girded it. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I asked, “What are you writing down, Mom?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

There have been mornings when I’ve dreaded the isolation this writing requires. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In support of my personal belief that real life doesn’t live up to writing about it, the members of my family seem to have spent most of their time that year engaged in correspondence. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When I bring him his morning wash water, he is writing. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Barack was writing what would become The Audacity of Hope—thinking through his beliefs and his vision for the country, threshing them into words on his legal pads late at night. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

No writing on the back of the seats. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow we learn He stopped writing as Zero walked into the tent, then re-turned to his letter. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I went inside the classroom, and the teacher was writing on the chalkboard while all the kids started sitting at different desks. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Winston was writing in his diary: It was three years ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It reminds me of being in Dr. K’s office, listening to music and writing down my thoughts. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Dylan Thomas, with his high, ethereal voice and poetry that was, at times, incomprehensible, fulfilled that idea, whereas Hughes, writing about ordinary people and about a very mundane Harlem, did not fulfill that idea. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I write about poetry; the new Roman Catholic liturgy; learning to read; writing; political terminology. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her poster about the forbidden word had quietly disappeared from the bulletin board, and kids were not staying after school writing sentences anymore. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Flashes of Cecile chanting words, tapping a rhythm with her pencil, then writing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She and two other girls from my college had rented a big apartment from four Harvard law students, and I'd been planning to move in with them when my writing course began. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I watched from the writing desk with my arms folded across my chest. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But I have to do all my writing in the Hab. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

At anything, including playing ball with Diego at the park or even writing this book. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

“Nothing you need to concern yourself with,” he says, turning back to his writing. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Then I take the cap off my pen and start writing. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

But such simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve, because to be clear in your writing you have to be clear in your thinking. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I start by writing down everything I can remember about the two days before the suspect disappeared. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are things that you can’t do— like writing letters to a part of yourself. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had it not been for Brother Luke, who is writing this letter, I should be dead. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

I kept writing, waiting for August to answer it. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not that I have ever felt 100 percent competent in the writing business, where one day’s success augurs nothing at all for the next. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He kept asking me to check with the government about how his flag would be delivered and urging me to get a commitment in writing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

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

And Enoch, who did not die but was taken away by God and made into the angel Metatron, kept God’s throne, invented the art of writing, and communicated God’s word to those on Earth. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Anyway, Mrs. Miller says I can’t write about Street Fighter because good writing cares about keeping the audience interested, so I’ll skip all my sweet moves. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She remembered writing that, too, not long before she stopped contacting him, before she pushed him behind many walls. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

If, in fact, my spiritual fathers are those seventeenth- century Puritans, there is one important difference between their writings and mine. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“And writing letters to the doctor that used to be there.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She had been sitting at a table and writing; something had interrupted her. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed it by the corner and blew on the writing to preserve its perfection. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the summer of 1844, while Charles Darwin was writing his first essay on evolution, Galton left England to travel to Egypt and Sudan—the first of many trips he would take to Africa. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Writing one of my old children. I do miss ’em when they grow up and leave me, but the Good Lord knows I ain’t much at writing.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Basil was at the next launch with his notebook pad, writing furiously. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Might be a caution,” said Mr. Weasley, still writing very fast, his brow furrowed. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When Kyle and his teammates had played the escape game, one of their biggest clues came from writing down the first letters of all the books printed on the backs of their library cards. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

Like everything else on these pages, my reasons for writing will be revealed instead to public readers I expect never to meet. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She started interviewing black residents who had been mistreated on the city buses and writing down their stories. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Inside, the pages are soft and the writing is bigger than in books now. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

I am relieved to find out that not all of his writings were destroyed in the fire—some of the pages had already been sent back to England with Captain Newport. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s to illustrate, via a peek into my stream of consciousness, the habit of lingering over good writing wherever you find it and reflecting on what makes it good. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Like all alphabetic writing systems, English uses many logograms, such as numerals, $, %, and + : that is, arbitrary signs, not made up of phonetic elements, representing whole words. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

It made me sad to think of Sam writing letters and nobody writing back, although I guess Betsy Read would write back. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

You've helped me discover something: I never would have guessed how much I love writing. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Those who were keeping journals or writing letters home began to confide in them about nervousness as they had before the Olympic trials at Princeton. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Somebody once said that in good writing, the sentences hold hands. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why did Australia not develop metal tools, writing, and politically complex societies? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I mean, I just feel like our club needs to get more focused and serious. What’s the point of writing if we have nothing important to say, right?” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I discovered that there was a great deal of writing on this very subject, and I made my way though the available literature on armed warfare and in particular guerrilla warfare. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He would never agree with children not being taught reading, writing, and arithmetic. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The subject of my writing an article somehow never got raised, but Malcolm X proved far more cooperative when I returned. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I couldn’t speak well, I could still communicate by writing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He’d become convinced that only by following Armstrong’s interpretation of the Bible could he find health and happiness, become successful, and gain eternal life, and he urged her to read the Bible and Armstrong’s writings. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was writing about Commando Special Forces, how popular and revered they were by civilians, but his dislike of their commander, a German mercenary, made his words stiff. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

As though an invisible hand were writing upon it, words appeared on the smooth surface of the map. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

The good news is that there are still four days left of vacation, which should clearly be devoted exclusively to sleeping and writing to me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

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

“Actually, Ultraviolet, I’m pretty sure you don’t suck at writing.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The mechanical man hadn’t been writing ... it was drawing! The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I was learning the craft of poetry, which really was an intensive version of what my mother had taught me all those years ago—the craft of writing as the art of thinking. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

If Matt thought he’d been bored before, it was nothing compared to writing the same letters, coloring the same pictures, and counting the same wretched beads and flowers all over again. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she entered, he was seated behind a rough-hewn table, writing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Walking to my desk, I sit down at the table I built for writing. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

That seems to me the strongest argument for writing this book. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Those couple of Dragon writing pages sticking out of it. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

So awed was I that it was a moment before my eyes fell on the figure at the writing desk, bent over some close task. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Seven looked over the blackboard Valley had just finished writing on and committed it to memory—they would find the Nightbeast while it was still in its weak state by luring and following cucos. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was because of those instructions that Grandma kept me up most nights and taught me the alphabet, multiplication, addition, reading, and writing. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was a letter many students were writing, in outrage. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But then who’s this Wick dude, and why’s he writing about it like it’s some kind of spiritual fellowship?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“That’s easy,” I say, and I head over to my table to start writing. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

At least there’s no way she could have seen what I was writing. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“This,” said Dr. B. J. Cigrand, Emeline’s second cousin, the North Side dentist, “in spite of the fact that she was in the habit of writing to her parents two or three times a week.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But she still had the face of a Grand Ball princess, with her bird-in-flight eyebrows and nose, elegantly curved like a letter from ancient Arabic writings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I want to explain things to you as if I’m writing a storybook, like The Jungle Book except without all the animals. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I am writing this to you from the airport. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I would have been glad to sit for hours reading or writing, but I fidgeted all the while I sewed and sometimes wept with boredom. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Herman E. Calloway’s name was all over the flyers and his writing was all over the rocks. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Grandmother grunted that it was her son’s writing all right. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was writing more about the animals now and less about myself, which proves I was feeling pretty safe. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Sam began writing us letters every once in a while—every two or three months especially after he heard that Father was dead. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a big piece of cloth and a safety pin, my writing arm hangs in a sling. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her writing wasn’t quite as clear, but beggars can’t be choosers. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z

“Intelligence is not only in reading and writing.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The reader became my excuse, my reason for writing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see if there’s any more that have writing,” I said, moving to the next desk over. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He took home substantial prizes: a new encyclopedia to replace the outdated one, a new writing desk, a cash prize, a savings bond. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Like Ralph Waldo Emerson? Ms. Jacobs says he was really into observing, so that’s what I’ve been doing. Observing. Like I’m an eyeball. And writing what I observe in my eyeball journal.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Your writing shows promise. If you’re able to overcome the difficulties like the one you describe in your paper and you continue working as hard as you have, you’re going to succeed.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I hated the very idea of the eighteenth century, with all those smug men writing tight little couplets and being so dead keen on reason. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Once the judges finish writing down their comments, Tabitha looks up. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Putting marks on paper is always only a part of the writing process. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

For instance, I believe in these words I am writing, because they are the truth of what happened to me. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Deane’s reports in invisible ink were passed to John Jay, who had the developing chemical that made the writing visible. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

But she practiced her writing at night—she didn’t want her family to know how she messed up. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I can’t feature it, when it’s too dangerous now for them even to continue writing letters. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I begin writing about all the great things that might happen in my future. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Ask Hannah for some nice little mess, and take it round, Beth, the air will do you good,” said Jo, adding apologetically, “I’d go but I want to finish my writing.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since I was little, I imagined myself living in an apartment in the middle of Manhattan, writing late into the night. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Writing was never developed or even adopted by hunter-gatherer societies, because they lacked both the institutional uses of early writing and the social and agricultural mechanisms for generating the food surpluses required to feed scribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mama says I always liked words; that I was talking before I could walk, and reading and writing before I even got to kindergarten. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Helmholtz Watson was writing when the message came down. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few weeks after the worst day, I started writing lots of letters. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For that reason, we must consider the concept of history, which, we are often told, begins with the invention of writing some 8,000 years ago. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

“I didn’t mean anything by it. I’m just wondering why you’d practice writing essays when you said you didn’t think we’d ever get to go back to school.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

They had to decide that a writing system should ignore all of that variation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway through the performance, my writing hand grew cramped, but otherwise there were no problems. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Still, that didn’t mean I had to stop writing obituaries. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I am writing this in the morning, about 10:30, while I rest after doing some things I had to do. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

“We could have some wicked cool workshops — writing, film, science, music, consciousness-raising. “ Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Every so often you’d see a coach from another school and, before he signed with Iowa, there would be small pockets of older men with notebooks, writing down every single thing Luke did. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“He is writing each a binder. If their ships are lost in a storm or taken by pirates, he promises to pay them for the value of the vessel and all its contents.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It included food science, this particular lesson being on Correct Menu Form and the question of what one should place first on the menu when writing it out, shrimp cocktail or Jell-O salad. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

This marked-up manuscript was then given to Laloo Chiba, who spent the next night transferring my writing to his own almost microscopic shorthand, reducing ten pages of foolscap to a single small piece of paper. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His teachers were always writing letters to my mother, telling her what a pleasure it was having a boy like Allie in their class. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

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 understand. You needn’t worry about that. I was asking because I need to assess the food supply. Some are saying there are fewer fish than there once were. Look here, what I’ve been writing.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

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

I wondered how much longer Emma had continued writing to my grandfather without receiving a reply, and what he’d done with her letters. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I was therefore surprised and pleased when the major did not oppose my writing Bram. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jasmine still isn’t looking at me, and I start to get the feeling—a bad, bad feeling—that she might be writing about me. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

However, I don’t love how much trouble I’m having writing about my character. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

You spent hours writing back to Vinny all those summers, trying to make it sound as if the girls at camp were lame, as if you were hardly having fun at all. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

Here she kept a cash-box containing various treasures, and a story she was writing and usually a few apples. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Then I would be killing two birds with one stone, writing a novel and learning something practical as well. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Anna, in the youngest group, learned reading, writing, and arithmetic. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In our writing symposium, entitled “Fighting Intolerance,” we solicited help from some of our literary idols. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

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

Their great warm faces looked down upon me from the mantelpiece, they floated in a bowl upon the table by the sofa, they stood, lean and graceful, on the writing desk beside the golden candlesticks. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“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

As for Ralph — by the time Callie was crawling and making nests for herself in the laundry basket, her father had moved on to writing up his results. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

These interactive recording/writing/animation sessions allow us to record an artist for an entire show in less than half a day, including unlimited takes and rewrites. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

She suggested that I read more, that reading would improve my writing. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Elizebeth also made time for another absorbing pursuit—writing a book. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“So you’re saying I may have reached my built-in ending to writing.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

As a result of that confined distribution, peoples who pride themselves on being civilized have always viewed writing as the sharpest distinction raising them above “barbarians” or “savages.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Both artists retained in their grown-up writing a sense of the fragility and potential pitfalls of close relationships. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

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

Mercifully, however, they were allowed to use normal writing utensils. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

In 1975 Frank Sikora, a Birmingham newspaper reporter writing a story on the Montgomery bus boycott, thought he remembered there had been someone before Rosa Parks. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

She was on course now, and had found satisfaction on other levels; writing stories not only involved secrecy, it also gave her all the pleasures of miniaturization. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Though academic prose is often stuffed with needless words, there is also a suffocating style of technical writing in which the little words like the, are, and that have been squeezed out. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Around 500 BC the placeholder zero began to appear in Babylonian writings; it naturally spread to the Greek astronomical community. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

If we were truly going to emulate the Freedom Riders, then our writing must transcend the walls of Room 203 and our individual plights and become a universal message. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the curious thing was that while he was doing so a totally different memory had clarified itself in his mind, to the point where he almost felt equal to writing it down. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She tried to be impartial in her writing, even though she saw the movement through her mother’s eyes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

And so he went back to his room and started writing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

When I started writing my book there was only one mystery I had to solve. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the floor were white posters covered with outlines of wavy writing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, I sort of liked writing about it. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I look up at Ms. Hawkins, who looks uncomfortable and is writing on the dry-erase board. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

Too much talk was hard to listen to, and writing, for him, was a brutal process. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I...I have never really told anyone this, but...I have a lot of trouble in school. With reading and writing and...well, everything but math and art.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

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

But the walls in Cecile’s house were clean, painted a yellow beige, and had no writing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small, quiet neighbourhood with Arabic writing and crescent moons inscribed on the facades of the houses. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Laying Hamlet down again, I pick up her writing box, set it on her lap, and hand her the pen. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t imagine either of us going for five years without writing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He typically works late into his evenings, and on most of his weekends, drawing designs on the computer, drafting plans, writing specifications, building Styrofoam and cardboard models to scale. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Working all day and writing half the night brought me down with a severe chest ailment. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was really, really thrilled when Mr. Tushman called out Summer’s name for the gold medal in creative writing. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“I soon began, and have been writing Upon that Subject ever since. I have been so unfortunate as never to make myself understood.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Theodora and Eleanor and Luke explored the tangled thicket behind the house and found the little summerhouse, while the doctor sat on the wide lawn, writing, within sight and hearing. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could start writing a letter back to Marcus, since I had my journal with me. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Good writing takes advantage of a reader’s expectations of where to go next. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Thank goodness I've found a private writing place inside the apartment. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And once I got to a place where the growl was pretty much a purr, I stopped writing in you. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

This is a college app, not creative writing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She walks around the room while we’re writing to make sure that we’re not sleeping or using our phones, but the actual writing is totally private. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

My writing, the best thing I have, is coming along well. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“I wrote it. That is to say, I collaborated in writing it. No book is produced individually, as you know.” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

He kept writing her letters months after he stopped sending them. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

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

The writing could wait until she was free. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The back of the paper, which they all knew had been clean and blank when they had left Egypt the night before, was now covered with writing. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A way with babies. I like it!” the newspaperman said, writing down the quote. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even in the oldest recorded writings was there any mention of a creature venturing to climb as high as the Abbey roof. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“That is rather fine,” Ignatius said to himself and continued his hurried writing. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That persistence of Chinese writing in Japan and Korea is a vivid 20th-century legacy of plant and animal domestication in China nearly 10,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I spend a lot of time now writing obscure words in the dark. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea where he was planning to take me, but I knew that I would want my writing notebook and pen wherever I was going. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie's mother came up to him and mimed writing with her finger in the air. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When she finished writing, she gave it to me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

But they differ in another way, which makes the acquisition of writing a lifelong challenge even after the mechanics have been mastered. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

My role models for writing were the ones we learned about in school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Cuneiform writing, the remote ancestor of the Western alphabet, was invented in the Near East about 5,000 years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would come into her room when she was busy writing in her notebooks or working with her three-legged table. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Moss shook her head as if writing me off. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I remember her writing “Services: Cookies” on the family calendar in big letters. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Suggestions for a new constitution were to come from the people themselves, and ANC leaders all across the country were authorized to seek ideas in writing from everyone in their area. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I felt unwanted in this land, so do I feel a reluctance in writing about it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its writing was, I think, both an obligation to and a link with his family, the Hearth of Estre. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, he could write—since when was writing work? The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I’ve done my best to capture the language with which each person spoke and wrote: dialogue appears in native dialects; passages from diaries and other personal writings are quoted exactly as written. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The school sent notes home, and I answered them by writing excuses on the unwanted typewriter and signing my mother’s name to them. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

We had to go past the nurses’ desk to get to the door, but the girl in white seemed preoccupied, sitting with her head down, writing something. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’s not here, though, so I’m writing to you instead. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“Well, she wasn’t shy about the idea of writing books. She was shy about the kind of books she wanted to write.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

By writing about the images he saw in Sarajevo, he was ensuring that no one would deny that ethnic cleansing was taking place, and that thousands of innocent men were being taken to their deaths. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

In short, I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He no longer knows who he’s writing to, because I have surely changed beyond all recognition. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was an old-maid’s hand, or an old-fashioned boy's, sitting with his feet hooked round the legs of a stool arid his tongue out, writing carefully. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that is when I started writing this. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She spent the night writing or wandering through the house. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He must still be writing our story,” I say, beaming. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Tension,” Derek said again, leaning forward and writing in his notebook again. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Crazy, jumbled, chaotic writings don’t cover every inch of the wall. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

First of all: writing, but I don't really think of that as a hobby. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her writing, I could hear her voice...NO! The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Convenient starting points for our discussion are the limited capabilities, uses, and users of early writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That was as close as my writing ever got to my house. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was just leaving,” he says, handing me a purple letter with gold writing on it. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that Wagner had learnt his trade writing pseudo- Italian operas, by the time he reached his maturity, he had moved decisively and deliberately away from an Italian style. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mo picked up a matchbox lying on Fenoglio’s writing desk, opened it, and slowly closed it again. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m really much too busy to be writing such a letter today, but I know you are probably thinking of me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“My style of writing is very different from yours.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Even I don't see the real Jason Taylor much these days, 'cept for when we're writing a poem, or occasionally in a mirror, or just before sleep. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

We started writing mean notes to each other. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“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

She had vanished into an intact inner world of which the writing was no more than the visible surface, the protective crust which even, or especially, a loving mother could not penetrate. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

He has been writing ever since—the story of our journey. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

But Kennedy would go on to become a self-described “dissident at large,” writing numberless articles and several books that railed against bigotry. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I was writing so much in my notebook, I wondered if Mama would have to get me another one. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The rest of what remains are texts on monuments, murals, and pottery—about fifteen thousand samples of writing, according to one estimate. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

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

She had remembered that this was just like writing for the newspaper, only she’d be talking instead. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Opposite them, near the center of the room, was a writing desk. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Resa reached for the paper again, and once more it took him a painfully long time to decipher her clear, neat writing. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Maybe I’ll be placed in a creative writing class, my top choice for an elective course. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

By writing them down in the order they appeared, I discovered that they spelled something. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In writing his letter to this new Lord Cheldthorpe, 03-01 seemed most sanguine about the prospects of His Lordship’s acquiescence and imminent financial gain. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

I thought I would spend the summer reading Finnegans Wake and writing my thesis. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Delilah is writing the obituary based on the interview her boss didn’t fire her over. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They spent an agonizing two months apart, writing each other letters to stay in touch. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Richard did, not only because of the prospect of writing in a university but also because he would be in the southeast, in the land of Igbo-Ukwu art, the land of the magnificent roped pot. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hope this will be the beginning of a new me, after years of simply writing to purge myself of pain. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Miss Phelan, You certainly may hone your writing skills on such flat, passionless subjects as drunk driving and illiteracy. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

There are a few lines of writing in block letters right below the doodle of the apartment building that I noticed the other day. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She didn’t know what her mother had found in the stacks, but it looked like something had kick-started her writing. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There were about fifteen children sitting at desks scattered around the room, busy writing out their one hundred sentences. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who won that award for their writing or their art. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s not the same. That’s like reading a thousand diaries instead of writing your own.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Momma,” I took her letter from my pocket, unfolded it, and slid it over to her, “you remember writing this?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

And I’m looking for ghost girls at church while my hand falls off from writing so many letters. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I am writing this in the living room; it is night, and I have a lamp lit. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He was being evasive again, as when I’d asked him about the writing on my cross. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were accusations and counter accusations, but no one would admit to writing the mysterious and puzzling words that straggled across the back of Ken’s question. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers—where you just repeat what you’ve already said with phrases like In summation, and To conclude. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t matter if you’re writing a middle school lab report or a real scientific paper. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like writing books and drawing were high on Mom’s priority list right now. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The Ring misseth, maybe, the heat of Sauron’s hand, which was black and yet burned like fire, and so Gil-galad was destroyed; and maybe were the gold made hot again, the writing would be refreshed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“That makes it a he,” said the reporter, writing rapidly in his notebook. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

And also, as I said at the beginning, I am writing it down for somewhat more practical matters. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

None of my professors at BYU had examined my writing the way Professor Steinberg did. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I mean, I still can't believe it, even right now as I'm writing this to you. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“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

Just the thought of writing about her makes me wish, deeply, that she was here now. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I read them not merely because I loved black music—I did—but because of the writing itself. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

To a modern eye, Mayan glyph writing is about as alien-looking as you can get. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

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

“Hey, Lydia. So. I wrote this story. And you know writing and stuff. I wonder if you could read it for me and tell me what to do better.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

We needed to interview more students, in other words, before writing them off. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I did okay with the reading and writing parts. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Uhmma, I ask, turning the boxes around so she can read the writing, where do you want these? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

When he told her he was writing to me, she said to tell me to remember my wings. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

When he thought of someone writing that ugly thing on her book . . . it made him feel like Bill Bixby just before he turned into the Hulk. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

X sat looking at the door for a long while, then turned his chair around toward the writing table and picked up his portable typewriter from the floor. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Taking up his Levy Pants ballpoint pen, he began writing on the first sheet of new Blue Horse paper: Dear Reader, Books are immortal sons defying their sires. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look, there’s some writing on the lintel over the door.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Mr. Heminges sat within at a table, writing figures in a ledger. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

On the Plymouth roof rack there was a four-sided, tin-lined, plywood billboard that said, on all four sides, in elaborate writing, Paradise Pickles & Preserves. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the leisure I now had I took up writing again. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was writing on one of the final pages. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Or else I would not be writing these words. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I started writing about the trip over, remembered that I had already written about that, and started again. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hollister clamped his mouth shut and focused on writing the address, drawing a long inhale of breath through his nose. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Eliza would sit half the day sewing, reading, or writing, and scarcely utter a word either to me or her sister. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

While I am fascinated by the linguistic exuberance of the vox populi, I’d be the first to argue that having prescriptive rules is desirable, indeed indispensable, in many arenas of writing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I ask Ms. Blinny, “Is it okay if I talk now? I mean write? If I talk out my writing? Or write out my talking? On the Dragon?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

And he turned back to his own writing—probably a sermon about hell’s torments, one of which was writing a short essay in thirty minutes. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Because I was the writing teacher, it was automatically assumed that I had read every leather-bound volume in the Library of Classics. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“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

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

Her competition was already back in their seats, writing definitions for words like gesture and narrator. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Louisiana stretched out her baton and moved it around as if she were writing golden words in the air above their heads. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Germans were writing on the cars with blue chalk—the number of persons in each car, their rank, their nationality, the date on which they had been put aboard. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think about Yule May, sitting in a jail cell writing this letter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I had dodged, trying to save time for writing, time to think. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The writing on it was faded and water-stained, but I could just barely make out three letters: A, V, a water-stained space and then an N. “Check out that box up there,” I told Connor. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The writing can be bloated, self-conscious, academic; these are habits that classic style, which treats prose as a window onto the world, is designed to break. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

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

And holy hell, writing a letter is definitely better than doing one of those stupid art projects where Sister has me paint my feelings. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Khosrou—I’ll stop writing it so you can stop skipping it—was the famous king who made the carpet called “The Spring of Khosrou,” where the rubies and emeralds were flowers in a golden field. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

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

“Remember I told you she’s writing her own version at home, a graphic novel?” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Well. This is no time for daydreaming. You’re supposed to be writing, not thinking.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Ever since I gave that speech, I’m thinking about writing. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I said he was supposed to be writing one. But I don’t think watching Netflix all day really counts.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

I’m sitting on the couch, writing a list in Daddy’s notebook. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

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

When I didn’t respond, he returned to writing, mouthing the words as he wrote. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In the poorly lit basement Mrs. Fanning squinted at the writing on the two doors. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I make it to class right before the bell rings, and the teacher is already writing an equation on the board. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I guess writing is how I make sense of things now. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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

They were sure, because where you were supposed to write “I am writing this punishment with a pen,” everyone was writing the word frindle every fourth or fifth sentence. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I am done writing this darn acrostic poem. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

A tear fell and blurred the writing on the letter. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I flipped back and pointed at what I’d been writing, “Where is he?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

The combination of government and religion has thus functioned, together with germs, writing, and technology, as one of the four main sets of proximate agents leading to history’s broadest pattern. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before writing the article, Jones pulled Henrietta’s medical records to remind himself of the details of her case. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

There was writing paper, ink, pen and pencils. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she will try writing again, nothing too ambitious, a fun poem in the limerick mode. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

When Bridge looked more closely, she saw that each star had a paper heart glued to its center, with writing on it. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

And I'd let D.B. come out and visit me for a while if he wanted a nice, quiet place for his writing, but he couldn't write any movies in my cabin, only stories and books. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“I know you were writing something. Show me!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

It looked sloppy, like he was writing in a hurry, or writing down the word while he was on the phone, or just thinking about something else. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

I knew we had potassium in the kitchen and suddenly I knew that if I were writing a story about a Communist cook, I’d have him poison his foreign employers with potassium. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see images of Sarah, grown, writing books, protesting for change. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

There were messages from demigods, nature spirits, and satyrs all around the country, writing about the latest monster activity. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Also, writing in Chinese had become a chore. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

I tore open my backpack and began writing. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He somehow learnt of my being here and started writing to me, suggesting we renew our acquaintance. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Momma had quit writing letters and I was done letting them follow me around, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to sleep under them every night. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He liked the music and the carpentry better than the reading and writing, but best of all he liked the swimming. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Just thinking the word Mom makes me want to cry; I can’t imagine actually writing about her. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I was writing a letter to Blink,” said Joseph. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

As for Chinese writing, first attested around 1300 B.C. but with possible earlier precursors, it too has unique local signs and some unique principles, and most scholars assume that it evolved independently. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first I can’t think of what to say, but then I pretend I’m writing in my diary again. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Perhaps you can best contribute to animal welfare by learning about their behavior and sharing what you have found out—by speaking, writing, painting. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, I had no family book to read, so I sat alone with a stick, writing words in the dirt. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I would have pleaded illness, but I knew that Falconer would brook no excuse short of my writing hand being lopped off—and even then he would probably insist that I transcribe left-handed. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Ms. Rochambeau finishes writing it, underlines it, and then wanders over close to my table. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

He went home and started writing down his ideas right away, pointing out which American industries could be easily destroyed with high explosives. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

“One last big favor to ask you, mi amor. No more writing in your diary for the time being.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Let us now return to the main question with which we began this chapter: why did writing arise in and spread to some societies, but not to many others? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was summoned from my writing studio in the back of the Clinic. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I pointed at the number you were writing. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I saved those writings—they now sit in a box on a closet shelf—and to this day it still hurts me to read them. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Our passion for writing and changing the world was rejuvenated. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Then the note writing has got to stop.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It was a radical shift from the kind of assignment that dominates high school writing instruction today, in which students are asked to write memoirs and personal reflections. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Fischer, like his predecessor Morphy, the nineteenth-century American prodigy, wasn’t especially prolific when it came to writing about chess, so the public greedily awaited each word he produced. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Am I writing on you or in you? Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

In front of me, Matt is writing notes back and forth with Calvin Umbatoor on a single sheet of paper that’s sitting on the floor between them. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Well, I didn’t just do that to disguise my writing. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I gritted my teeth as the daily value of pork chops was tabulated, longing to be at home with my writing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But although he felt sick most days for much of the day and often slept terribly at night, he kept writing and publishing books and articles, on orchids and climbing plants. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew when Trip had failed a math test by the shredded scraps in his trash bin, when Moody had been writing songs by the crumpled wads of paper in his. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

I reckon I know pretty well what would happen if the white ladies found out we was writing about them, telling the truth a what they really like. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Dear Mayor, I’m writing you Not about my sister But about Danny. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been working. We discussed this when I took the promotion. It meant full-time hours. And then writing this grant proposal, which I told you all meant extra hours, was temporary.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

But all the writing was the handwriting of children. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I still want to know exactly why my sister gave up on her dream of writing romance novels. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

That’s why, scared as I was, I kept writing in my diary. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

But here we are in the twenty-first century and it refuses to die, at least in writing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The Iliad and Odyssey were composed and transmitted by nonliterate bards for nonliterate listeners, and not committed to writing until the development of the Greek alphabet hundreds of years later. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hardest task for me was writing a final paper for my science class. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

In fact, he’d mastered reading and writing so quickly he’d begun training in Illumination three months earlier than any Apprentice before him. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

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

His Secretary was writing them down in a little red note-book, one after another, as the King thought of them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

I just might be getting the hang of this writing business. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Given enough time, the societies lacking writing might also have eventually developed it on their own. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

The next morning, I wake up early, cut myself a big piece of Richards birthday cake for breakfast, and start writing the letter. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then he took the green leather writing case from his tote bag and looked at it longingly. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Augustus assured me it was because my email was better and required a more thoughtful response, that Van Houten was busy writing answers to my questions, and that brilliant prose took time. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“You writing down things about us all?” and he called out the names as he found them: Jocko, Slant, Pomp, Isaac, Charles. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

But writing that I had done a good job killing just didn’t work. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last proximate factor to be discussed is writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She is writing her email address on a piece of paper for me. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I expected to see writing on the walls. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s more to an education than just reading and writing,” Papa said. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The king was asleep, exhausted by the effort of writing his memoirs about the war. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sensei—or teacher—had conducted class in Japanese, and while she could keep up with the spoken language, she couldn’t keep up in the reading and writing. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The shaky writing in the front of the book says, “For Ally—my wondrous girl! Love, Grandpa.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been writing back and forth with this person,” I explain. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She opened the clue without declaring the book, and it read: Where he finished writing this. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I was instructed to give my unit a report of my activities, writing, organizing, speaking. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom took a break from writing and had breakfast with me and Dad, and I made pancakes that were sort of shaped like chickens, if you used your imagination. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

The writing was hurried and cramped, the margins overflowing with questions and hastily jotted notes, but she could have recited every phrase and placed every punctuation mark with her eyes closed. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, you are the onye ocha who speaks Igbo. You are the one who is writing wonderful things about our cause. Well done.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There is an old toothless man leaning over to see what I am writing. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

After dinner I read the newspaper, while Mala sat at the kitchen table, working on a cardigan for herself with more of the bright blue wool, or writing letters home. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

He took out a sheet from a stack of paper—a flyer with a crouching black panther and some writing on it—and held it up to examine it. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I was glad she let me keep writing to Marcus, since my life was better with him in it. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

“Do you remember,” he went on, “writing in your diary, ‘Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four’?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She told me I had more letter writing and praying to do. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Since I got back from Europe, I have been writing some of my own. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She loved writing and singing songs, but she had been so filled with sadness that she had lost the heart to sing. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

But somehow, writing to you in here feels like you’re listening. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The Mesopotamian temple was the center not only of religion but also of economic redistribution, writing, and crafts technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Big brother, I am writing this for our mother and father just as they have said it to me. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Being put down there would have been bad, and writing anything was much easier. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

From where he sat he could see twenty other men, all of them writing intently. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The writing on the parchments changed about halfway down the pile. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I have a difficult time writing at extended length about anything. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer, writing for the group, dispatched to Washington a dispirited one-page memo on June 16 memorializing their conclusion. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

That meant Emma needed to try both versions, writing out the complete phrase, and then listing, a, b, c, d, e...etc. above each letter. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

While the writing on the front bears his stage name and the theater address, the letter inside greets him with his given name, Hector Bowen. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Syllabaries were common in ancient times, as exemplified by the Linear B writing of Mycenaean Greece. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I mean if you're good at writing compositions and somebody starts talking about commas. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

His writing journal, the “Book of Tears,” as everyone calls it, rests on his lap. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

You apologize, in passing, for not writing about the war. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The fact that I am writing the letter at all is an expression of faith—faith both in her and in die belief that trust can lead to trust, and truth can lead to truth. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Reggie had started writing apology letters days after the accident, the ones he never sent. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

‘I is usually writing a bit more than this on the labels,’ he said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could find descriptions of phenomena in ancient writings—the Green Phoenix stories, “The Seven Strange Tales of the Golden Bottle,” “What Confucius Did Not Talk About.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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 guess it makes sense that I’m more invested, since I’m the one who’s been writing to this person this whole time. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

But then when my father went away, my uncle started writing his own music, telling stories in his songs. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

And that is what I am trying to do by writing this book. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I lay in bed most of the day, reading and writing in my journal. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I have loved writing since I could remember. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to drive her crazy by writing the whole thing in capital letters. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took lessons from a drawing master and a writing master. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

By August, Houseman had taken on most of the writing himself. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

I sank down into the bedcovers, thinking and thinking and occasionally reading a couple of pages of Anne of Green Gables, to help put me in a writing mood. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“But your writings, great sage? Will they burn the books of Yehuda, too?” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But the many vividly depicted ceremonies in Mexica art and writing leave little doubt that it occurred—and on a large scale. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

But if I am going to all the bother of writing stuff down, it may as well be the truth. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

I think about writing something of my own on the wall. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

In retrospect, all his writings had done were to make him that much more politically and professionally vulnerable. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mere writing of it will be more fun and a deeper satisfaction than any praise or blame from anybody. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But you been writing about things up here, about Jose and his stupid field over there on the west side, so you must know a lot about this town.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been writing a bunch of stuff in this notebook, but it all feels wrong.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She said she felt like maybe writing again, getting back to her essays and poems. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I spent an hour doing mine and writing all this because, I guess, for some reason, I kind of do. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

In most newspaper writing, for example, all titles are in plain type, though not all go inside quotation marks. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took Zu’s workbook and pencil out of his hands and flipped the page without looking at whatever he had been writing. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She snapped the cap off a pen and started writing, hunched over the paper. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Then he found the catch of the compartment and clicked it open, and there, just as he’d known it would be, was the leather writing case. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her first-class brain, her writing, and all those books, nobody can make my sister take a seat in the balcony. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes, daddy,” the boy said, crouching over his pad and carefully writing. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Anne kept busy by writing graffiti on the Tower walls. grammar. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

If by “effort” she means writing a check that could send a small village to college, then she definitely put in quite a bit of effort just so I could be a human petri dish. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

If only he had run two yards farther to the left, he might now be sitting in the trench over there and writing a fresh letter to his wife. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teacher’s writing on the board, but the letters don’t make sense. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Barack told me, ahead of leaving, that he preferred letter writing. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Different genres of writing had to be physically separated. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“There’s no rule against writing in Spanish. It’s up to you.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have to stop writing now because I am too sad. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“At least you don’t have to worry about the person writing you messages on the wall anymore.” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

“I shall be writing tonight for the last time.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Donders’s writing at the time shows an ebullient quality, such as when he describes the challenges of quantifying mental processing. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I was the proverbially overprepared student; I had to have a standby writing utensil. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I’m writing this on the tram, and if I get to you in time, I won't have to give this to you at all. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She strains her neck to read the tiny writing as we bump along the sidewalk. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Government linguists devised the modified Roman alphabet adopted in 1928 by Turkey for writing Turkish, as well as the modified Cyrillic alphabets designed for many tribal languages of Russia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Good. I really hope this is the last time I see you in here, Isaiah,” Mr. Tobin says, writing my pass to the Reflection Room. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

West Africa eventually did receive Fertile Crescent domestic animals across the Sahara, and later accepted Islamic influence, including Arabic writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had ideas for writing a book about race in America and planned, he said, to find work that aligned with his values, which most likely meant he wouldn’t end up in corporate law. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

So, tonight, I picked up my pen and, sure enough, I’ve been writing my heart out even if my hand is shaking. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I began writing about the process of going from agency to agency, being categorized, being advised of my shortcomings, and having dire warnings sent my way. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He invited George and Phoebe to come with him to the first class writing room. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

On September 29, Bunderson wrote Daines to put in writing the proposed settlement that had been the product of ongoing conversations. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

I look across the street and notice a fancy sign with cursive writing on it above a new store. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He could prevent anyone from speaking to me or writing to me. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wake up, eat breakfast, help Mamá Jacinta cook and clean, and then lie around reading and writing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It felt good to be acknowledged for my writing talent outside school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

That month, he began writing notes in his journal. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

If I waited and said nothing, she returned to her writing task. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Every time I start writing something I just assume you no longer care and then I feel stupid and say nothing. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

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

Afterwards she got her box of writing paper from the cupboard and sat down to write a letter. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It was written by a man named Montaigne, who was a soldier. But he grew tired of being a soldier and spent his time studying and writing. He also liked to walk on country roads.” Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climb out on the fire escape almost every afternoon now, writing while the sparrows dance against the darkening sky. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I know where there’s a package of soap flakes in the woodshed. It has writing on it. I’ll bring you a piece of the package.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

“You have brought something in writing, naturally,” he said. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Speaking it, writing it down, translating, and responding. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

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

As a child I wrote, but I never considered writing as a job or career. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I’d sit across from him, say what’s up, chat about writing, find out if he’s into guys, call him pretty, pray he calls me pretty back, get his phone number, fall in love. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

It’s an aspect of the art of writing which depends on intuition, experience, and guesswork, but there is also an overarching guideline. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t think I had ever been expected to do much writing. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I do declare you’re as strong as a horse,” she says, writing one last thing down before flipping my chart shut. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

When I was finished writing the letter, I used my Crayola Stampers to decorate the margins. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The town I live in isn’t small, and there are radio, TV, and newspaper people, all of whom will be presenting stories and writing articles for the next day. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

The same person who taught me to appreciate poetry also taught me the value in writing it. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“Now, children,” she continued cheerfully, “let’s begin our writing projects. I will collect them at the end of the day.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t end up writing in my journal right away, though. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

He looked over at Rawiya again and she shot a quick smirk at him before writing down something else. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Accomplished wordsmiths identify a need while writing, or spot a problem in a sentence while revising, and when all goes well the suitable word or construction pops into mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I examine this writing from every angle, trying to figure out if it could be Cordelia’s, disguised. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not just because she says so, but because the writing goes all smeary and the paper crinkles. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Delving through books, he discovered the writings of Catholic theologians, and he became intrigued with the religion. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Why, then, did only some peoples and not others develop writing, given its overwhelming value? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I sat across from him, fiddling with my own writing brush while I listened. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I kind of want to keep writing to him,” I told Grandma. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I start to put the booklet back, telling myself I’m not writing a book about Southern legislation, this is a waste of my time. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He’d try it the other way too, then backtrack, then rewrite what he’d written, again and again, until he couldn’t even tell if what he was writing was different from what he’d written before. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked—and immediately started scrubbing the bad writing out with her pen. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

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

Monday knew I hated writing, but we promised to keep in touch, and you don’t just back out of promises. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Some of the Conversat is less interesting, with too much writing, and some of it is only charts on the wall or looking through microscopes, which we can do whenever we want to anyway. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had gotten in the habit of writing down a different English word and its definition every day and memorizing it. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe because I’m not writing it down on a sign-in sheet for detention or signing an apology for something. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

If nothing else, I hope it makes whoever’s writing these messages smile. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Both schools had writing programs, and both asked me for writing samples to accompany an application. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In formal writing, avoid using help but, as in: Huck can’t help but look silly in those pants. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I just did answer the question,” I say, still writing without looking up. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The rise of literacy, of the culture of writing and reading and bookselling, had reached a critical stage in the classical period. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

Alphabets of ultimately eastern Mediterranean origin spread throughout all complex societies of Eurasia, from England to Indonesia, except for areas of East Asia where derivatives of the Chinese writing system took hold. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I have no memory of the conversation, but I remember writing the journal entry about it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Though he continued to speak Greek to his parents, Milton never succeeded in writing it, and as he got older he began to forget what even the simplest words meant. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I reached into my bag and pulled my journal, started writing all the stuff that was happening to us. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Fired by the mystery of the language no one could read, he became a superb linguist and passionately immersed himself in ancient Egyptian writing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dr. Tandlemann glanced up; his hand had a life of its own and kept writing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My eyes scan the hateful phrases written in thick, crooked lines—sloppy writing that screams Go Home, Terrorists, Towelheads, and bad words so terrible that I squeeze my eyelids shut tight. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“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

China has had only a single writing system from the beginnings of literacy, a single dominant language for a long time, and substantial cultural unity for two thousand years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, she says, “Give me like five minutes,” and then sits back down and resumes her writing. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I can’t see it in the dark but I trace the tiny scratched writing with the ends of my fingers, as if it’s a code in Braille. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The writing stays, a private mantra for those resourceful enough to find it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We are writing to notify you that your acceptance to the University of Georgia Honors Program was, in fact, a clerical error. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Nor was I, with all my reading and writing skills, articulate enough to express my sense of being lost. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Okay, we are going to begin a unit on persuasive writing,” Mr. Daniels says. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

He added something to what he’d already written and ripped off the corner where the writing was. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you shouldn’t try writing with your left hand,” Raizel said blandly. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“It can wait 1 year? That’s it, right? Can I get that in writing?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were five minutes of instruction that day; students spent the remaining fifty-odd minutes working on various stories they were writing. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hope you don't get tired of reading those words, for I feel I shall never tire of writing them. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

They didn’t see the need to wait until they had reached their goal to start writing the history. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Other boys and girls bent over their paper, writing, pausing to gnaw their pencils, writing again. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

Look, maybe Mom was right about not writing while I was angry. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

I no longer wonder if the checks I have been writing to the Missionary Fathers of the Blessed Way are bribes to God; I just go ahead and write them. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Can you cipher too—along with your reading and writing?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Using one of her dad’s purple editing pencils, she corrected the misspellings like he did, marking through the incorrect letter and writing the correct one above. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Rudy would concur, "Me too," but then, he wouldn't move from his place at the foot of my bed next to my desk where I sat writing. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mesoamerican writing is believed to have arisen independently of Old World writing, because there is no convincing evidence for pre-Norse contact of New World societies with Old World societies possessing writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Now as Cara sat at the kitchen table looking through the sheaf of fourth-grade editions, she had trouble imagining herself writing all this. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

Could I be writing to one of the older kids? A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I am writing this book in the hope of enlightening readers about the journey an African-American takes in having to grow up and live under the laws and traditions of oppression. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He wondered again for whom he was writing the diary. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Each of those microsocieties alone was far too small to support chiefs and craft specialists, or to develop metallurgy and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

However, the Greeks so despised zero that they refused to admit it into their writings, even though they saw how useful it was. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Left one day and did not come back. Didn’t even leave a note. You would think someone who was constantly writing notes would leave one.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Underneath it said: I'm writing to say I Miss You. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But why was I writing it to begin with? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“But who would have such small, perfect writing?” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced at the twins, who were still writing, their pencils stitching words together like bits of lace. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Though counting abilities were rare in the ancient world, numbers and the fundamentals of counting always developed before writing and reading. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The difference is just one of style: than I is more suited to formal writing, than me to writing that is closer to speech. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Now it is five in the morning and I am still at the writing desk, thinking over my strange two days. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mrs. van D. didn’t move, but stayed by her writing desk, looking for a handkerchief. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I show him an article about sports writing. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

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

At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Because she missed him so, she had taken to writing little stories about him. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The abstruseness of the contest winners’ writing is deceptive. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

That is writing as I feel it, a kind of significant living. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

A chorus of exclamation points says two things about your writing: First, you’re not confident that what you’re saying is important, so you need bells and whistles to get attention. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a few years, I was not only penning columns, I was writing sports books, doing radio shows, and appearing regularly on TV, spouting my opinions on rich football players and hypocritical college sports programs. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine the letters from our own mother— Coming to get you soon— are ones we're writing to them. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

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

He was planning on moving to New York and writing plays, but he told me that he doesn’t really think he wants to anymore. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

When she writes on the blackboard, I have to squint to see what she’s writing. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was sitting at his desk, writing something. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

A second piece of writing also brought no response. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

Others thought mice were as good a subject as any for drawing and writing. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

“That you solve by writing them a poem?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Nudzahui writing survives in eight codices, the deerskin or bark “books” whose painted pages could be folded like screens or hung on the wall like a mural. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was practicing the writing of his signature. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom became even more concerned about my values when my editor offered me a job writing a weekly column about what he called the behind-the-scenes doings of the movers and shakers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Her job bored her: she did the same bland things, writing press releases, editing press releases, copyediting press releases, her movements rote and numbing. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton carefully waded through thousands of documents when writing their part of the six-volume, 5,700-page History of Woman Suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Tyler solved the equations easily, writing out orderly explanations for every step. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Well, I thought you might miss it—writing your own things, I mean. So I got enough paper for you to write for both of us.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought about writing you and telling you before, but I wasn’t sure you wanted to know. Was I wrong?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, not all the time. I mean, most of the time. But my mama comes to visit a lot and she’s always writing these notes.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t find any markings or writing anywhere, on either side of the wrapper’s surface. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Why spend so much valuable time writing and arguing about affirmative action? he wondered. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I’m writing this only by moonlight under my mosquito net, so forgive me if it is messy. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

“I noticed you were writing in your journal and not exactly paying attention,” he said, smiling a little. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Come on. Get writing. I don’t have all evening,” Mr. Ingman says, looking at his watch. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He took out the checkbook and began writing on it. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

If I did not believe that everyone is capable of understanding where an apostrophe goes, I would not be writing this book. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

Now my English teacher was insisting that I explore the two worlds, that of the books I read and that of my writing, and examine them for common threads. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I mean, not just through the Mist This is different I’ve been drawing pictures, writing lines—” “In Ancient Greek,” I said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There is an old-fashioned way of writing the history of early modern science in which Copernicus, Digges, Benedetti and Gilbert are presented as scientists, although none of them used the word of themselves. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

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

Cecile was forever writing on walls when she lived with us, and Pa was forever painting over them. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

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

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

But it was chiefly intimidating because I was comparing my own writing to Mann’s. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The grief counselor suggested that he try to channel his grief through writing songs. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

These writings may shock or horrify you, but that is not my intention. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“Wage” something...I look back through my notebook to see if I can find it, but that was before I started writing things down. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

The writing on the paper was blurry after too much recopying but Big Ma would be able to read it. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I believe in johnny pumps and jump ropes, Malcolm and Martin, Buckeyes and Birmingham, writing and listening, bad words and good words— I believe in Brooklyn! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Myrna’s habit of writing to editors rather than friends was always reflected in her salutation: Sirs: What is this strange, frightening letter that you have written me, Ignatius? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t in love with the book—I thought it was overly dramatic—but I liked Hemingway’s writing, and I thought the scenes of the sea would look good on a wide screen. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I have a surprise. I have a brand-new writing journal for each of you, which you will write in every day.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The teacher, a really tall man with a yellow beard, was writing on the chalkboard. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Not ever,” Hannah muttered to herself as she watched the smoke curling up, writing its long numbers against the stone-colored sky. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom must have thought Chess gave the phone back to Ms. Morales right away, since she was writing to Susanna, not him. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The curtains are open, which means he can’t get at his writing paper. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

These terms often appear below the staff, although writing them above the staff is also allowed. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

He went to the bedroom, took out the green leather writing case, and handed her the sheets of airmail paper. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I flip it over, and on the back are yellow stains and cursive writing in pencil that has almost faded away. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I ignored him and asked Mom, “Why are you so scared of me writing to him?” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

What he needs is to type instead of print because writing by hand is very difficult for him. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

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

He was writing his love letters, I told myself, but it didn't look like love. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“It’s murder trying to get any writing done.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

Still, Nhamo couldn’t help sounding out every bit of writing she encountered. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw the quality of the writing and marveled at it “Fifth-graders!” they said to each other as they passed the News around the teachers’ room. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

I keep my workbook closed, too, cuz there’s no way I’m writing any words about being safe and happy. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t be writing this if I didn’t, but I have all sorts of physical problems that are directly the result of my brain damage. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Not my most successful piece of writing ever. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

The writing assignments I do for Ms. G’s class require draft after draft until everything is perfect. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

I loved any subject that involved writing and labored through precalc. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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 said, “Reading, writing, and arithmetic, and I bet I’m just as good at it as you are.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Absolutely. And I think it’s time for you to start writing your own stories too.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Look to me like you just writing life” I stop my pencil. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I spend about twenty minutes staring at Blue’s email on my laptop that morning before writing back. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Unlike the Egyptians, the Greeks outgrew this primitive way of writing numbers and developed a more sophisticated system. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“I wished he would go away or die or something,” Mom explained later, when she started writing some of her thoughts down. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

Still, I kept writing, and checking the mailbox daily for a response. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

After being cured in the sanatorium, Cady goes back home and continues writing to Hans. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

When Ophelia came to visit, Farmer was usually either reading or writing. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Even if they overlooked private property and sheriffs writing citations, most of the highways feature narrow shoulders, in a landscape that gets so pitch-black at night, any car rushing past would likely kill them all. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

About seven years, or four billion miles, ago, my father swore he would never let anyone read another word of his writing. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

It can help rid their writing of errors, dead ends, and confusing passages. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Petra, writing in neat purple ink, started a new page with the heading "Facts about Vermeer." Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It surprised Matt to see how poor the man’s writing was, when his speech was so intelligent. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you writing down there—what he died from, I mean.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt like we were writing to a celebrity, and all we would end up hearing in return was a letter from her agent saying thank you and here’s a signed photograph. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Woodhull and Claflin were never charged with libel, a charge that involves writing false information about a person that hurts his or her reputation. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He held a writing quill in one hand and a big metal sheet of parchment in the other. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

And there can’t be writing on the T-shirt or people will read it and I don’t want them looking at me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The answer of the Communist leader ran from organizing to writing novels. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rooms, corridors, doorways...The explanatory words were in French too, and in different writing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“I saw my big sister writing one last night. She wrote the name upside down and then put a big red X over it. She said that’s what the court used to do to criminals.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Most songs my father set to writing were finished in a single season, while this one was stretching toward its second year. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But I think Ms. Porter secretly told me that I’m going to be in her creative writing class next year. Just like I wanted. She wrote it in my yearbook.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Arnold tried to learn the identities of American agents in New York by writing first to Washington and then to one of his officers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we can make some educated guesses as to what music from ancient Greek and Roman times really sounded like, based on their writings. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Then he would come out of it, and the two would go out to dinner, then plunge into writing some program or into a long battle over which operating system was superior. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He told me he always makes certain to deliver your letters to me as soon as he can, because I’m one of his best customers, writing so often and all. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

My grandfather, Sam’l Hamilton, loved good writing, and he knew it too, and he had some bluestocking daughters, among them my mother. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Fabian is already writing spelling words on the board. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Kind of spooky, don’t you think? We started writing about him on the same day that his name was first recorded. There are more than three and a half centuries in between....” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

They used slates for writing, and abacuses, weights, and measures for math. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I filled my time writing and reading—writing for my own amusement that year except for an essay contest run by Life magazine for “the book I would most like to see in Cinemascope.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Who would go to the trouble of writing things like that? A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now I saw him writing the number 19 in a blank. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Though most of my writing time is spent on notes which I keep in a separate folder, from time to time I have to put down my moods and thoughts out of sheer habit. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

William Gilbert, writing On the Magnet in Latin, is, as one would expect, alert to the difficulty of using words like ‘proof’ and ‘demonstration’ to describe what experiments do. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Last week, Mr. Stoker liked our idea of writing a blog post about pets that need a home. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

Some afternoons I'd come home from school to find Aunt Cecile sitting at the dining-room table writing down and crossing out numbers as she talked on the phone. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

It was a complete jumble of things, and when I tried to write about any one of those things, I ended up writing about my mother, because everything was connected to her. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

She is writing an essay about how media is used in social movements. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

There was a woman on Weylin’s plantation whose former master had cut three fingers from her right hand when he caught her writing. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

I keep writing you all my brightest thoughts but I never say the dark ones, even though I think them all the time. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Start really seeing stuff and writing it down. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Even if you never reply to these letters, I’II keep writing them. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I could open the textbooks, I could read the assignments, but then I would be drawn back to my own writing or reading. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The other reason is that other opportunities for the independent invention of writing were preempted by Sumerian or early Mesoamerican writing and their derivatives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“All right, guys. Hop to it. Pencils out. I want you writing this stuff down in your scripts.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Outside of writing, acting was what I was born to do! It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

My secret journal was an old hardback copy of The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoyevsky, in which I spent hours writing in a tiny script between the tightly printed lines. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

A few weeks ago I started writing a story, something I made up from beginning to end, and I’ve enjoyed it so much that the products of my pen are piling up. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“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

I put the blue one with the writing about Hint on it on the bottom and looked at the others. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I was glad we didn’t have group discussion, but instead worked silently on writing our presentations. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Since the summer before seventh grade, NYU’s creative writing program has been my dream. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A bad case of flu has prevented me from writing to you until today. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“It had all sorts of writings and pictures on it. Really fancy. I haven’t ever seen colors like that. And some of the paints were shiny like silver and gold.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

Professor McGonagall pointed them into a classroom that was empty except for Peeves, who was busy writing rude words on the blackboard. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

That is the rationale behind the American Heritage Dictionary’s Usage Panel: two hundred authors, journalists, editors, scholars, and other public figures whose writing shows that they choose their words with care. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

“Just writing down something I don’t want to forget.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

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

Parts of Eurasia, and one area of the Americas, independently developed writing as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t that Marshall hadn’t taken any interest in hieroglyphic writing, because he had. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a minute, Mom said, “I’m taking some classes. Online, through IU. To get my master’s in social work. In fact, I wasn’t looking at antioxidant recipes; I was writing a paper.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Ask your teacher if it’s OK if you use this. Instead of writing, you can keep an oral journal.” Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She finishes writing and then nods at one of the guards. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

I hope you are writing like you promised. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Cecilia was about to pass the folded sheet of paper she had been writing on. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Neither of them will ever see my letters, probably, but it’s the writing I need, the pouring out. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And, in some broad sense, my writing is political because it concerns my movement away from the company of family and into the city. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father took his stick and began writing an equation in the sand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

I remove her writing box from her lap and take her hand in mine. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Now much of my writing contained remnants of too many thoughts and had too many obscure references. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

He often asked who you were writing to and why. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I’d done some more experimenting with cake flavors since then, but this recipe felt right for today, since it reminded me of the summer I first started writing to Marcus. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, at school, I still kept plowing along, practicing drums, writing journals, completely bagging all of my homework assignments, and faking human interaction with the people around me. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

That makes me think about writing a poem, one about tears. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

So when Puttenham wrote about poetics, he was also writing about rhetoric. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

That’s not to say that those societies without writing were totally isolated. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was her custom to read your letters aloud to us and crow over them, thinking it a feather in her cap to be writing to royalty, such as yourself. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Over these months they will get to know each other intimately, writing seventy-eight letters back and forth. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the third, she was seated at a writing table and a maid was handing her what looked like a letter. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I bet they’re aiming for the Ivy League. Oh, they could help you with your essays! You’ve never really been good at writing.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

He answered in a whisper too, as if his writing had become something hallowed and had made the room itself sacrosanct. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Letter writing was one of the centers of social life in nineteenth-century England, along with visiting relatives and friends and going to or giving parties. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did he happen to mention anything about you writing up a letter for me?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among the resulting proximate factors behind the conquest, the most important included differences in germs, technology, political organization, and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I work to support my habit of writing. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, the novel, as time passed, grew upon me to the extent that it became a necessity to write it; the writing of it turned into a way of living for me. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They made their way to worried parents, usually at the hands of their children, who printed out and turned over the writings they hoped would help explain. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look around, but everyone is staring at their notebooks or up at what Mr. Owens is writing on the board. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The invention of writing makes a convenient landmark, for the absence of written records is surely one of the key differences between prehistoric and historic societies. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to make you real by writing these letters, but who knows if you’re even listening. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But here, the only people who could read her writing would be those who might punish her for being able to write. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Harry moved his aching hand over what felt like the thousandth envelope, writing out Veronica Smethley’s address. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

There is widespread agreement on how to name chords, but there are several different systems for writing chord symbols. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

At the writing of this, I can tell you that I am somewhere between one hundred sixty and one hundred eighty years old, although I don't enjoy looking my age. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

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

He went, very slowly, over to his mother’s writing table, on the other side of the room. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

She turned around and started writing on the chalkboard. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

All other societies that have become literate did so by the diffusion of writing systems or of the idea of writing from one of those few primary centers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the lined sheets are covered with drawings instead of writing. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He keeps telling me I ought to be writing these stories to go with his pictures, since Mrs. Lacey at school has been bragging on those things I wrote for English. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So you can get a head start on your writing.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I simply cannot drop the writing I’m doing now.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put on his overcoat and muffler and began writing again with slow determination. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I am writing the lyrics down, trying to catch each word before it's gone then reading them back, out loud to my mother. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

I take the crinkled treasure from his hands and read his chicken-scratch writing. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

I was not speaking or writing against them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly before he set forth on this final voyage, Octavian, my dear Octavian, spake to me of writing a treatise upon government. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And if Edith Wharton were still writing, how could she not include a heavily blinged hip-hop mogul? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I memorized the Gothic style of the writing the hue of the ink, traced the stamp, and made note of the terms used. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

For writing exercises, students were instructed to explain how they had failed to work hard and follow rules. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

The only people who know I’m writing this novel are Dylan, Hudson, Harriett, and my parents. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

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

He didn’t seem to; he went on writing down his strange curlicue notes about Thomas Hardy in Phineas Shorthand. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her daughter, she said, would not be writing back, now or at any time in the future. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Was that a bit of picture writing, etched into the golden curve of a petal? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The card was black and had a cell number in silver writing. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Have you been writing that column all this time?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to ask her if she thought I was nuts for writing to Fred, but I didn’t. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I tore through the lessons, quietly keeping tabs on where I stood among my peers as we charted our progress from long division to pre-algebra, from writing single paragraphs to turning in full research papers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

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

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

White and African police and members of the Special Branch milled around, taking photographs, writing in notebooks, and trying unsuccessfully to intimidate the delegates. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Restricting signs to those for single consonants was only the first of three crucial innovations that distinguished alphabets from other writing systems. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s like all I can do is keep writing this gibberish to keep from breaking apart. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The resulting empires were administered with the aid of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I'm writing this because I don't know what happens after brain surgery. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Instead of writing the information in notebooks, I started to use a little tape recorder. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

We talked for a while longer about whether or not I was going to study writing or just be like everyone else who wanted to be a writer and become a teacher instead. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The Hindu writings tell us of a religion in which fire was extremely important. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

I want to tell you about this diary I’m writing in. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I made it through homeroom without speaking to anybody and was just settling in for a nice period of off-topic journal writing in Miss Palma’s class when the intercom blared, calling me to the office. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My plan was, as I taught, also to study, to take graduate courses in English literature and possibly writing. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He could use his writing to inspire acts of patriotism and bravery. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

He starts writing: Play guitar like Jimmy Page. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

“I’d seen it before, but I didn’t think of it as an E then, just a squiggle that looked like writing. There are all these rocks that look like they’re covered with writing.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Milton writing love letters and even, after reading Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress” at night school, love poems. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember her ever writing anything,” I said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I said to her, loud, “Joetta, guess what. I’m thinking about writing my own comic book.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In the tiny classrooms, students gathered around conference tables and critiqued the concept of America as a shining city on a hill, or compared the writings of Charles Darwin and Ursula K. Le Guin. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

So I’m going to hope you start writing back now that I’m writing to you at your new school. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I paused writing and got out Marcus’s last letter from my backpack. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to spoil my stationery by writing the whole truth about our Christmas, so I just told her what I got and signed my name, along with love and kisses. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 nodded to Chronicler, who casually shook his writing hand to loosen it, then unstoppered his inkwell. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that I thought we could look at some more modern poets this year and think about how they are writing and how we can use those poems as models...” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

‘From this point on, we’re writing our own story, with a fresh start. And we just had our first kiss.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I will finish my writing now and go to prepare myself for tonight’s festivities, which will be held in their usual place, at Cavern Hole in Redwall Abbey. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

And, as is explained in writing and over the next day and a half of training, we too have a special code of decorum. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the evening, after I had cooked dinner and washed up, there would be lessons in reading and writing the Tang people’s words and in the use of the abacus for arithmetic. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

If so, the writing could not be fundamentally pictographic or metaphorical; rather, most of the symbols must stand for letters or syllables. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bureaucrats were not intending to create writing. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

"I think I should tell you right away," she said, and I could see bad news in the set of her neck, "you didn't make that writing course." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He began writing home for the money he had sent back in better days; soon that was almost gone. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Howard Koch continued writing scripts for The Campbell Playhouse into the spring of 1939. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

She shuffled away, writing on her order pad. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if you are waiting, or if you have doubts, please read my words with care as Josefina is writing them down for me. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was note-paper also in the drawer, thick white sheets, for rough writing, and the note-paper of the house, with the crest, and the address, and visiting cards, ivory-white, in little boxes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he began writing in sheer panic, only imperfectly aware of what he was setting down. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

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

Wiping my tears from the page, I smudge the writing so badly, I won’t have to erase a thing tonight. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

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

When they finally left, the flowers were destroyed, the furniture broken, and the walls covered with drawings and writing, but Fernanda pardoned them for all of the damage because of her relief at their leaving. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Much advice on writing has the tone of moral counsel, as if being a good writer will make you a better person. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to have anything left unsaid, which I guess is the why I started writing these letters in the first place. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He says, “Mason is right. We’ve been here before with all of this. You have seen his pages. The writing. I don’t think he has anything more to tell you, Lieutenant.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Since the beginning I was writing down everything and thus committing—if I so wished—all of our movements to an official and secret memory. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The historian interested in such questions about writing has the advantage that they can often be answered in unique detail by means of the written record itself. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I look up and they’re smiling and writing it on the board. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Near school two well-known Macoutes in a car gunned down a young man who was writing slogans on a wall. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m working on a... a few—” “Eugenia is writing about the life of Jesus Christ,” Mother pops in and I recall my most recent lie to cover my nights out, calling it “research.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“The writings of Boethius may give you some insight.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Many writing guides provide detailed instructions on how to build a paragraph. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The very complexity of her feelings confirmed Briony in her view that she was entering an arena of adult emotion and dissembling from which her writing was bound to benefit. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

Also, Dan Williams, nature photographer, writing a book about the Standing Rock reservation, who ran three miles of it with her while also taking her photo. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

She opened the clue without declaring the book, and it read: Where he finished writing this. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I had to be the world’s biggest loser, writing about hair, and stuff about my body. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

And the only time I did settle down to write was when I was sitting on the Beaver writing in the ship's log. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

My supervisor, I learned, was the eminent Professor Jonathan Steinberg, a former vice-master of a Cambridge college, who was much celebrated for his writings on the Holocaust. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

The way it permits me here to describe myself, writing... Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Among island empires, why did writing arise in Minoan Crete but not in Polynesian Tonga? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was at this point that he ripped the sheet from his writing pad, crumpled it, and threw it into the sea. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

In between placing phone calls and writing long-drawn-out, pathetic, and often incoherent letters, Cabot continued his study of the very subject that had, unbeknownst to him, driven Alma away: the potential of humankind. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“It’s not easy to do what your dad did, writing the name of one color with another color. It doesn’t come naturally.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

A bit of writing paper came with it also.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He still had his pen in his hand, as if he couldn’t decide if he should talk to me or continue writing. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of writing a long email, I want to talk. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“How wondrous—eyes reading back and forth. Now he’s writing his thoughts down. What’s that thought?” she asked, pointing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Skills: listening, speaking, writing, story telling, explaining, teaching, using humor, understanding the syntax and meaning of words, remembering information, convincing someone of their point of view, analyzing language usage. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Then to a former sergeant, then to the woman writing the letter. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

JetBlue now has four hundred reservation agents, like Dolly, working at home in the Salt Lake City area, taking reservations —in between babysitting, exercising, writing novels, and cooking dinner. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

Whether it is fair to charge the Gershwin brothers simply because they were white Jews writing about African-Americans per se is a much less clear-cut accusation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I had never thought of writing as a competitive effort, but on one level it had to be. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Like Henry, I sensed I was enlisting in something great, too—writing—and that it was time for me to stop running away from it, but to face it head on. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I was a little annoyed at first since I was the one who suggested writing this thing because I couldn’t stand the miserable look on Lorraine’s face ever since the Pigman died. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

She turns back to me and says, “Yeah, but that’s the least you can do. The meekest thing. If that perv had tried to hurt me, believe me, I wouldn’t be just writing it out.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The new, expanded headquarters in Boston, donated by Harvard Medical School, now housed specialists in grant writing, technology, and administration in addition to regular staff. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“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

“Perhaps if you try writing the question out?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

His mind slips to last fall and a writing course at the local community college. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Two letters for Doctor Jo, a book, and a funny old hat, which covered the whole post office and stuck outside,” said Beth, laughing as she went into the study where Jo sat writing. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The main reason I'm writing this letter to you, Zlata, is because I know you've been in this kind of situation. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Each stone was engraved with magical writing, and if they dropped one, it would either explode or turn everyone within half a mile into a tree. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“For writing books? People would have thought she was a hero around here. Maybe she could have made movies or something, too. That would have been cool.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Keeping books, counting coin, writing contracts and letters.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I decided to try writing a movie script.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“No, that Martian picture writing, it wasn’t anything. Let it go!” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Although I was a reader, I did not associate books with writing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And number nine was that Lakeside was willing to let those kids spend their spring term miles away, writing code. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

It was all very confusing, but one thing was clear: I needed to learn a little more about this faraway place before I could even begin writing my letter. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I was translating today’s writing for von Linden, my elbows on the table and my head between my hands, not daring to look at him. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

But I do not give voice to my parents by writing about their lives. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

My writing was my way of seeing, my way of living, my way of feeling; and who could change his sight, his notion of direction, his senses? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most of the time I didn’t write, because one day was just like the day before, and sometimes I thought—what’s the use of writing anyway, when nobody is ever going to read it? Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I am sure my heart actually stopped for a second when I heard it, and again writing it down. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I’m almost home before I remember that I want to enter my writing in a library contest. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

There it is, beside the tissue package she takes out, the little green book with embossed-gold writing that she carries around with her, One Hundred and One Evils and Their Islamic Cures. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Remember people are not reading you as entertainment, they’re reading you as cultural commentary. That’s a real responsibility. There are kids writing college essays about your blog,” he said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“I may be able to arrange for you to assist the teachers when they need an extra hand. Maybe help with reading or writing or art? And maybe someday you could even teach there.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

"Is Joey writing a B & B to Grandma and Grandpa Eberle?" The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

He rummaged through the riot of papers on his writing desk. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to ignore her, but she started writing on my jacket. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

The lightning strike did nothing for my writing skills. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

However, such writing can become precious when there is no sense of forward movement. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Just as over-scrupulous historians refuse to use the words ‘revolution’, ‘science’ and ‘scientist’ when writing about the seventeenth century, they baulk at using Butterfield’s other word, ‘modern’, because it, too, seems to them inherently anachronistic. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

All this talk of writing down goals was making me anxious. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I thought of writing Mom and took out my paper. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here, he uses ‘proof’ as if he were writing preuve in French, where we would use ‘evidence’ in the sense of Evidence-Indices. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

I nodded and quickly handed him the hankie, neatly folded to conceal my writing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The writing was large and straggling and ought to have looked, Eleanor thought, as though it had been scribbled by bad boys on a fence. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

In a few cases, we also know something about the individuals who designed writing systems by blueprint copying in the remote past. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“But if you’re looking for clues to what they meant when they wrote certain parts of the Constitution it helps to know what the arguments were leading up to the writing.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Within East Asia, China’s head start in food production, technology, writing, and state formation had the consequence that Chinese innovations also contributed heavily to developments in neighboring regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

The mage’s face darkened at the name of the ship, but he said, “So be it. Give this writing to the Warder of the School on Roke, Sparrowhawk. Go with a fair wind. Farewell!” A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

“In Lit class I’m going to write you a sonnet about how nothing could possibly be gayer than writing your friend a haiku.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“But I want it in writing that after I do twenty hours’ work for you, Shiloh belongs to me.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

This writing project feels like the right thing to do, and it will be worth making some personal sacrifices. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

Cap never suspected that the entries were all fake, and that we were writing them in the equipment room after Zach was done with football practice. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

We’ve decided to make a comic book, and I’m going to do the writing. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

You included in your letter that you “immensely enjoy writing. ” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Too many things have to go right in a passage of writing for most mortals to get them all the first time. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

The different prose styles are not sharply demarcated, and many kinds of writing blend the different styles or alternate between them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

I made some of you reading this yawn simply by writing the word “yawn.” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We shall therefore trace writing’s development not only because of its inherent importance, but also for the general insights into cultural history that it provides. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

In hurried, cramped writing, he began his letter to history. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guessed that she was so caught up in her writing, she hadn’t heard me the first time. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the professor barely mentioned them at all, and instead talked about “philosophical underpinnings” and the writings of Cicero and Hume, names I’d never heard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

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

For the rest of the night the only sounds are the sounds I decide to make: writing numbers, spitting toothpaste, walking like a cat to my room, closing my bedroom door, flipping pages. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

“Do you feel up for a little more writing tonight?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“See,” she said, “most people write the name of the color of the pen they’re writing with.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I told my grandma about these letters, and she’s glad I'm writing to you. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

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

We know that the development of Sumerian writing took at least hundreds, possibly thousands, of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the time of this writing, one source of a large variety of such books was jazzbooks.com. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Right there in front of him was the “struggle for existence” that he was writing about in his book. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Among his writings were plays that would later become famous operas, The Barber of Seville and The Marriage of Figaro. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had been reading and writing beyond the purview of the schools all my life. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Yesterday was a quiet day spent in teaching, sewing, and writing in my little room, which is very cozy, with a light and fire. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also knew that I was writing for an audience—Dr. Luce—and that if I seemed normal enough, he might send me back home. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He sat all day in his marketplace stall hoping to make a few rupees by writing letters for those who did not know how to write their own. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

On top of his papers and framed photographs is Eduardo’s goldtone ballpoint pen, obviously a family gift, maybe from high school graduation, and here’s the little boy taking it, writing slowly in the air. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

That task was evidently so difficult that there have been only a few occasions in history when people invented writing entirely on their own. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

How could a seasoned author like John Keegan, a man who shows frequent flashes of writerly flair, serve as a model of incoherent writing, comparing badly with a guy who sells birdseed on Cape Cod? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

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

And both men regarded the letters they were writing to each other as the capstone to that final project. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

The writing is small, so I lean in closer to read it. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Intelligence is not only in reading and writing,” I said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I sat down with my writing journal and grinned like an idiot. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

And underneath it is a napkin with writing on it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

She knelt and began writing in the surf with her finger. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He made notes as he watched the birds, writing down what they did, how they behaved. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ANC branches contributed a great deal to the process of writing the charter and in fact the two best drafts came from Durban and Pietermaritzburg. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

To remove the writing load from Houseman, they hired a lanky thirty-six-year-old writer named Howard Koch. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

When dawn came, he was writing swiftly, filling page after page with his fine scrawl. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, the phonetic signs in Sumerian writing fell far short of a complete syllabary or alphabet. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that what it says on this here writing?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I tried writing a few poems a la Shakespeare, but quickly returned to Browning. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

She said she was writing a book about black beauty, hair, and celebrity. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The teacher is writing on the chalkboard in perfect Palmer method handwriting. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the visitors were smiling, sometimes adjusting their ties or taking notes on the writing pads they carried. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I understand not writing back, but why wouldn’t you even read my emails?” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I remember Ms. Saintima telling us many weeks ago that writing poetry could begin with something as simple as coming up with some words to describe your feelings. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

I had come across them and the notes while looking for some writing paper in her desk. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

By some mutual consensus, some collaborative song- writing, the piece changes month by month, slowly and predictably. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I rather hate the idea of writing for priority^ Charles wrote back to Lyell the next day. “ Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel smiled and nodded at the writing box. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

A candelabrum was lit at the writing desk by the window where her stepmother sat. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the second time she reminded Cora of the lessons in reading and writing, which were optional but recommended, in keeping with their mission of colored uplift, especially for those with aptitude. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Together with “The Internet is ruining the language” and “People write gibberish on purpose,” this is the explanation I hear most often for the prevalence of bad writing today. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Then he worked in the control room with me, watching the cameras and writing stupid programs that spelled out words on the screen or played guessing games with numbers. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Francie bought a sheet of writing paper and an envelope for a penny and carefully wrote an application and addressed it to the ad’s box number. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old wooden signs with kanji, the most complicated of the three ways of writing Japanese. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“We are trying to get him to come. All loyal citizens are writing letters.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But in informal writing and conversation, if no one's likely to mistake your meaning it's fine to put only where it seems most natural—usually in front of the verb: I’m only saying this once. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was writing Lady Stark to make a peace, the King- slayer would soon be freed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"He's well qualified for the job. And your husband, how's his writing coming along?" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dear Diary, To inspire us in our new writing project, Ms. G gave us a letter she received from Miep after her trip to Amsterdam. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

After a while, the Army stopped writing to the Friedmans, and it made other plans to wrest control of code breaking from Fabyan. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Practice writing your clef symbol on this staff. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

When the humorist James Thurber was writing for New Yorker editor Harold Ross in the 1930s and 1940s, the two men often had very strong words about commas. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

But most importantly, there was a letter—the letter, the one from Uncle Wood when he was heading for Kuwait, a crinkled piece of paper with blue writing on it. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In his comic play The Clouds, Aristophanes, writing in 420 bc, lampooned rhetoric as the art of weak reasoning, “which by false arguments triumphs over the strong.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

He was writing rapidly on a scroll, the brush racing across the paper, leaving behind a trail of perfectly formed characters. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

"What sort of writing is that? I thought Mr. Shakespeare's hand was hard to read." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Instead she was like, “Well, why did you keep writing?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The guest room I occupied was supplied with writing paper, ink, and a pen. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

She also helped me with my writing ’cause I’m not very good at it.’” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I thought I might do some writing along the way, perhaps essays, surely notes, certainly letters. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And it saves us the bother of trying to read his writing. All right, Ben, show Nat around.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s to prepare you for writing an official scythe’s journal. Whichever one of us gets the ring will be legally obligated by commandment six to keep a journal every day of our lives.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

All this time, I wanted to know who was writing the messages so I could help them. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He started writing to her on the first train that took him out of Riverbank, and he wrote still more as he crossed the ocean. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When I’m done writing, I close the notebook and put it next to Daddy’s in my backpack. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

I continued the letter to Charlie, writing about everything other than the war. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And he orates random thoughts of profundity with such authority that you want to write them down and hang them on the wall, but they only allow writing instruments in the rec room. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

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

Dr. Hyde had already done this three times, kicking kids out of class for not paying attention or writing notes to one another. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Late one night, after a long day of writing, he pulled a copy of Ramparts magazine from a box of books he’d brought with him. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Wasn’t writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“You writing down what happens in the house?” The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once the line at the pencil sharpener had faded and most students were finished writing, Ms. Udell called on a few volunteers to read their journal entries. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Every time I saw him, I tried to imagine him writing those editorials in the Standard-, I tried to imagine him defying the soldiers. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Have you finished writing about Ross?” he asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I explained to him that I was writing a book about my family and asked if I might see some of the synagogue records. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ladies and gentlemen, can we please focus on the writing activity for today. No fighting in the poetry club.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

The Iliad and the Odyssey are, or rather contain, the oldest Greek writings we have. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chose one of the scrolls before him, took up his brush, and began writing. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

“Now, take a blotter from over there and blot each envelope after I’m through writing on it,” she instructed me, pointing to a blotter that stood about a foot from my hand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says, “See that? I tell it to stop listening so it won’t think I’m still writing when I’m talking to you.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

I am sitting there now, writing this, and Corky is with me. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

For some reason, I was really getting into writing. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Nita had given Nailer and Tool a bunch of names to memorize, writing them in the mud for Nailer so that he could memorize the pattern of their letters. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

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

And now a girl named Lorelei Lumley was writing me notes about how she’d love to run her fingers through my hair. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

I know I’m not supposed to be writing about this. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

And he began writing again...and crossing out words...and writing more, while outside the sun sank lower and lower until its rays were gilding the hilltops. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The one with the most writing in red was sure to be mine. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The letters furnished evidence of a vast public identity writing made possible. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

In closing, she remembered she had daughters and was writing to them. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Army saddled him with writing an official account of their wartime code and cipher operations—“all the histories and data and things—the final say.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

He spent the time writing poems and letters, which could never be posted, or telling his companions about the princess, whose nickname in her family aide was Piggy. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

My name is written in her fancy writing on the front. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

It’s not easy to persuade Mother to tell of her girlhood in the North, where her grandmother’s land stretched farther than doves could fly, where looking pretty and writing poetry were her only duties. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Hence the Andes, West Africa, and the Mississippi Valley were effectively rather isolated from societies with writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The languages and genes of those homeland inhabitants, as well as their livestock, crops, technologies, and writing systems, became dominant in the ancient and modern world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It shows the phenomenon of a man living at his lowest and writing at his highest; a grief-stricken man who turns out monstrously funny copy. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

That many misspelled words from Metias can be nothing other than a message to me—the one person who was most likely to go through his writing. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

In the front covers of the textbooks from which he is taught to read he leaves his legacy, writing his name in number-two pencil below a series of others. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m pretty sure he’s not the one writing the messages on the Hideout wall. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I had spent years learning about Bigger, what had made him, what he meant; so, when the time came for writing, what had made him and what he meant constituted my plot. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I opened it, the watchman holding up his light, and read inside, in Wemmick’s writing,— Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

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

“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

The important thing was that Barack had managed to process his life story, snapping together the disparate pieces of his Afro-Kansan-Indonesian-Hawaiian-Chicagoan identity, writing himself into a sort of wholeness this way. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In conversation, we can stress the phrase we wish to deny, and in writing we can use italics to do the same thing. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

It was almost as if they were a little bit afraid of finding out whether there was any mysterious writing on the slip of paper that still hung, damply limp, from Thoth’s beak. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you trying to make fun of me, healer? What d’you think I am? Huh, writing materials! The idea of it!” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

All the memories, funny moments, and unforgettable scenes living inside me, things I’ve been thinking about and writing about in my notebook, are parts of me that they know nothing about. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

I'm writing this log to you, dear future Mars archaeologist, from Rover 2. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scooped up the writing with my finger and ate that first. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Maybe then he’d hire somebody to keep it clean, or an armed guard to stop people from plugging up the toilet, smoking, or writing on the walls. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The three basic strategies underlying writing systems differ in the size of the speech unit denoted by one written sign: either a single basic sound, a whole syllable, or a whole word. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She started writing the list of names on the second-to-last page of her notebook. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

If you have a little time and feel like writing to an old school chum, send me a letter, please. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I'm writing all this down in my book, and he’s looking at his Bible. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

And children it would be, for four months after writing that letter, Emma was pregnant again. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

So maybe I’ll just sit here writing in this journal until someone forces me out. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I swerve around the long wooden tables, where groups of college students are reading textbooks, writing flash cards, typing on their laptops. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He says, “Keep writing, Mason. I like that. Go ahead and type it out. Keep it all about your friend Benny. Good job.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

But when there’s no chance of being misunderstood, it’s not a terrible crime to use than me in casual conversation or informal writing: Trixie’s fatter than me. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It felt so good, writing in the journal again. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

What unfolded that day at Cajamarca is well known, because it was recorded in writing by many of the Spanish participants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The history of writing illustrates strikingly the similar ways in which geography and ecology influenced the spread of human inventions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever I feel this way, I start writing in my diary so there’s another voice that I can listen to. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Normally, she would have been involved in these preparations, but they happened to coincide with her two-day writing bout and the beginnings of the front-of-house construction. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Life writing, she’d called it, an assignment for them to write about themselves. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was more a hobby than a moneymaker, but the work satisfied her dual interests in art and in a certain, listlike style of writing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Montaigne found no happiness in his new life, and so he turned to writing as a form of therapy, a way of keeping himself company. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Ube smiled at her when she walked in, and Jam took an index card from his counter, writing her question about angels down on it. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I was furious when I found out that Gay and my mother had been writing letters behind my back. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Like Sumerian, Maya writing used both logograms and phonetic signs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A single Norwegian worker sat at a desk, writing in a book. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

A striking example from the history of writing is the origin of the syllabary devised in Arkansas around 1820 by a Cherokee Indian named Sequoyah, for writing the Cherokee language. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Rachel obeyed, but even as she handed Lyddie the writing materials, she protested. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I guess. But, Dad, they were writing notes, too!” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would watch her write in her diary, and I was amazed at how perfect her writing was. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

What I was doing was spending more and more time alone in my room, reading or writing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

I long to point this imperfection out to him, but he finishes his thought with, “Except maybe writing it.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He opened it and there was a bunch of writing all o’er the pages at the front. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I bet he’d tell me to say hi if he knew I was writing to you. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

Also: if he’s eating a sandwich and writing a letter both at the same time, how is he holding on? Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I distinguish myself from them by writing about the life we once shared. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I continued writing on the back of the typed note: I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I was ready with my pad for jotting down random thoughts I could use later in my writing, just in case the tar pits turned out to be super boring. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

But somehow, after that day in the greenhouse with Mom, I pretty much stopped writing. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

I’m writing it in the journal with the clouds on the cover that Mom gave me for Christmas. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The letters looked like clothes hung out to dry on a line and they looked more like musical notation than writing. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m writing because I have bad news. My unit got called, and in a few days, I’m going”—Grandma paused—“I’m going into battle.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“I was writing an account of his life and I know him as well, perhaps, as anybody,” I told him. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Any idea why Eliot Bolivar stopped writing poems for the parish magazine?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

After writing the letter and sealing the envelope, it occurred to Calder that maybe this was bad advice. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

No one knows for sure if medieval plainchant singing had a pulse or beat of any kind, because there was no way of writing it down. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I thought about writing to Mrs. Pelham, to ask if he’d been back to see her. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

And her own parents were sitting to the left and right of Meggie, and her mother was writing and writing, on leaves from the trees, on the fabric of her dress, in the sand. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

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

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

Billy couldn’t carry it very far very easily, which was why he was writing in the rumpus room instead of somewhere else. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hamlet sensed my hurt and looked up from his writing. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I had no qualms when it came to writing frankly about Hall, Fischer, or Sandy Pittman, each of whom had been aggressively seeking media attention for years. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

“All the more reason not to worry about writing one. If it’s lost among a gazillion pages, you can write your grocery list and what you ate for breakfast. No one will care.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

One look reveals the writing as my Momma's, and something breaks in me. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Darling, You asked me to write you a letter, so I am writing you a letter. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I consulted Pim, and a week ago we set to work writing a verse for each person. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Then yours is mauve,” I said, writing it in the blank. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

At least the Observer was a little more adroit, in writing that if Nigeria survived the massacres of the Igbo it would survive anything. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We spent the next period writing paragraphs about Zambia, choosing one minor subject. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

But when I woke up this morning, I found myself thinking about what Ms. Singh said when I asked her for advice about writing. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

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

It's really more of a metaphor’ And Mark is writing, 'Definitely pick up actual literal snakes and drink actual real poison like rotten grape juice or other Bible-y poison’” “Who knows exactly what he meant?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

He puts off writing to him until he can articulate these thoughts, but finally, even though he isn’t sure he will be able to, he gives it a try. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I tried to smile, but I could not see how his purpose was served by writing of me this way. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Written in narrow, loopy writing he had never seen before were the following words: There was no signature. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

If you need a compass to navigate a sentence, take another whack at the writing. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had finished writing the letter in his head, explaining things to Kiowa’s father, and now he folded his arms and watched his platoon crisscrossing the wide field. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana was writing about Mark Twain, since he too had lived in Missouri, her old state, and no one else in her class had chosen an American for their author’s report. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t even bother writing down her comment. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The writing had to answer a series of questions: Why did I feel the need to talk at the same time as my teacher? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He stopped writing, and stared at the paper. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he had fun writing the letters that were published by newspapers, and watching the public’s reaction. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“You know,” said Rawiya, “if everyone’s late to homeroom tomorrow, how long will it be before they start writing us up for being tardy?” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“You read the writing on my cross,” I said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I never told nobody that before. Not even Minny. Find I can get my point across a lot better writing em down.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In the last centuries before 3000 B.C., developments in accounting technology, format, and signs rapidly led to the first system of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

If we were going to be a real band, we had to start writing our own music. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But then I start thinking about how much time I put into my writing. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Tallis remained standing, while Briony sat on one side of the writing desk and the inspectors sat on the other. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I assure you I was writing from the heart.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Still reading from ancient texts, secret writings, and the Bible his mother had given him at age fourteen, Cabot had taken his curiosity to obsession. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

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

Reading went well, and he was beginning to make fair characters in writing with the quill. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Goodbye to the three electric lights in the ceiling that seemed always, no matter where you sat, to cast the shadow of your head over the page you were writing on. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I look down and see my own writing. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

When within a month two great educators, Maria Montessori and John Dewey, died, the talk was of writing and advanced reading skills and whether they were good for the very young. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The profusion of metaconcepts in professional writing—all those levels, issues, contexts, frameworks, and perspectives—also makes sense when you consider the personal history of chunking and functional fixity in the writers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

She hitched up the long roll of parchment on which she was writing her Arithmancy essay and continued to scratch away with her quill. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He even start writing his own book, bout being a colored man living and working in Mississippi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

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

I hoped this meant that he was really finished with that Paula person and she was finished writing him letters and calling our house and that he’d turned over a new leaf. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I start writing to Tom, writing and deleting, writing and deleting, trying to find ways to ask forgiveness for the things I said last night. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

No actual writing system employs one strategy exclusively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

"It means beautiful writing," and she asked me if I would like to learn' how to write like her. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

This information in hand, the linguists went back to the writing on the potsherd. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Since the writing of this story, I have spoken to Luke about the incident. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The pens we used had detachable nibs and it was necessary to dip your nib into the ink-well every six or seven seconds when you were writing. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The police commissioner agreed the seating rules were confusing and promised that the city’s attorney would soon clarify them in writing. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

The writing is rough, but we’re running out of time, so it will do. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Dictionaries now accept both dove and snuck, but I wouldn't recommend snuck in formal writing. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew he was pressing F5 at each computer before writing scores down.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She said I had to be quiet and patient and start writing in my diary again. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Before encryption machines came along, people had to compose their own ciphers, writing them out letter by letter. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Even if Keeper was June, there was a big difference between writing words on notes in a locker and saying the same words out loud while looking into June’s big brown eyes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, I’m going to be busy writing me a rap about dudes beatin’ on women. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I could see they needed a place to talk, a refuge here. A place to feel safe,” Brown recounted, as I wedged myself into a chair with a writing arm. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

In fact, the corpus of writings in classical Nahuatl, the language of the Alliance, is even larger than the corpus of texts in classical Greek. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Bas ordered that the book in question be passed to him, and when it was, he flipped to the back page, took out a pencil and started writing on it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We are getting all the attention now, newspapers are writing articles about us. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Some paper with writing on it. I think it might be important.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“We could have you running point on policy. This means a lot of research and a lot of writing.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Lawrence tried to communicate his excitement about Seaborg’s discovery in writing, via a memo to Jewett’s committee declaring that “an extremely important new possibility has been opened for the exploitation of the chain reaction.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

I did not want to make the same mistakes in my next writing assignment, which Miss Bell announced the following day. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I gave up the idea of the biographical sketches and settled finally upon writing a series of short stories, using the material I had got from Ross and his friends, building upon it, inventing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And that was even with starting his writing career. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

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

While I had moved more into writing, and into reading, I was moving further and further away from my parents. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Asserting that he had been instrumental in writing it, Welles wanted control of its future use. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Perhaps writing arose independently on Easter before the arrival of Europeans, although no examples have survived. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

When I wasn’t being questioned about my life and feelings, I was writing about them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

It took me a few seconds to figure out the focus, but then I could see a man sitting at his desk, writing something. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m just reminding you that it was a two-way street. You have to realize that Julian was obviously writing those notes as a reaction to something.” Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

For his part, Verdi spoke nothing but praise about his acid- tongued contemporary, writing that Tristan und Isolde was ‘one of the finest creations that has ever issued from a human mind’. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

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

Hollister clamped his mouth shut and focused on writing the address, drawing a long inhale of breath through his nose. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“History, chemistry, writing—this is like school,” Rowan grumbled to Citra, because he wouldn’t dare complain to Scythe Faraday. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

They began posing for posterity, writing letters to us as much as to one another, especially toward the end of their respective careers. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The best way to do that is to put it into writing.” Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

We learned the same things in school that children learn all over the world—reading, writing, arithmetic. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I assume he's hunched over somewhere writing songs into a comically undersized notebook. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

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

But now writing is one of the things I can’t do. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He would say, in the middle of writing a sentence, “I am afraid I must leave off now” And it would be time for a rest. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now, Gregor could still do without the chest of drawers if need be, but the writing desk really had to stav. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 kind of forgot about him, and my theory that he might have been in love with Gram, after Fina and I found out who was really writing to me in my journal. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Joey repeated the name, like he was writing it down. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our Miss Maestas came in and told us the war was over, and she was happy, but the little kids just went on writing the magic letters in their tablets. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Small and strange was the writing, overwritten and interlined by many hands, and all those hands were dust now. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

It's only half full because I've been writing in small letters. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

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 sit here in silence writing this small volume of words, and it seems to me the most public thing I ever have done. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know, Mate and I drew up the list ourselves in the pretty script we’d been taught by the nuns for writing out Bible passages. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes. I can’t put it down. I love her writing. Have you read her?” X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I walked home carrying the heavy manuscript, I remembered attending one of Dr. Kerry’s lectures, which he had begun by writing, “Who writes history?” on the blackboard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Aside from the obvious pressure, it seemed that everyone had his or her own little way of doing things, especially when it came to writing. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Washington spent the day at home in a small, stuffy office seeing visitors, writing letters, and worrying. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

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

I breathe loud thru my nose as I look at the page of writing on the back of the map. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

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

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

Since I know that’s what any admissions committee will most likely be asking, I’m writing to offer an answer. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been writing since the sixth grade, when my mom bought me a fancy gold journal that came with the smallest lock and key I’d ever seen. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

And Mozart, not long after writing The Magic Flute, had died—in his thirties—of kidney disease. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Hopkins died not long after writing that letter. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Why do you want to know who’s writing the messages so badly, anyway? ” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Girl goes into bathroom, props flashlight on back of the toilet, and begins writing. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I read her bubbly writing of a poem called “I, Too.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Naomi couldn’t hear what Tommie was saying, but before long the monitor was writing out a pass. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was silent, occupied with some plans for the foundation which she was writing on a sheet of paper held against the undulating front section of the board. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is my situation: writing these pages, surrounded in the room I am in by volumes of Montaigne and Shakespeare and Lawrence. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, writing the number 87 in the Egyptian system would require 15 symbols: eight heels and seven vertical marks. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Why is so much writing so hard to understand? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

That was why his writing was nothing like the writing on his other letters. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The Headmaster took it and read the writing. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And there, sure enough, a brand-new piece of chalk was hovering near the grey-black writing surface of the blackboard. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I peered at the writing, but I couldn't read it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I says, ‘My boy says I’m the one stopping him from writing in his copybooks. He’s been writing on this story for almost five years.’ A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spends the rest of class writing on the board and speaking to the flag about our required reading. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s the body your daddy’s been writing letters to Washington about. The coffin never got dug up and shipped back to the States because I paid off a police captain to make sure it wouldn’t.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

Davos could decipher maps and charts as well as any, but letters and other writings were beyond his powers. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The problem was that Wagner felt that writing symphonies was no longer a worthwhile pursuit. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The blade was leaf-shaped, and the writing on the hilt was Greek. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And if I did, would my writing be accepted? Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

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

The envelopes was all of the same kind of rough paper, but the writing on ’em was very fancy and done neat. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

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

But by the time I finished writing about it in my journal I had settled down. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Perry, We got your 2nd letter today & forgive me for not writing sooner. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The only ways in which I felt that my feelings could go outward without fear of rude rebuff or searing reprisal was in writing or reading, and to me they were ways of living. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Children, especially very young children, cannot express themselves fluently either through speech or writing—two modes of communication that adults use almost exclusively. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

There is a great deal of power in writing things down. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I am writing this as a newly minted director who’s shown her work to an audience of...I don’t know, a thousand people? From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Under the back porch there's an alone place I go writing all I've heard. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her writing’s gone from tiny, perfectly formed letters to chicken scratch. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Her writing was going kind of slow at first, but she’s making better progress now.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I write to be writing in my own language, perhaps. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The writing was kind of a blinding kaleidoscopic view of my life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

To us today, it is tempting to ask why societies with early writing systems accepted the ambiguities that restricted writing to a few functions and a few scribes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

She even started writing in one back to front. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And at a time when she was cut off from everything she knew—family, home, friends—writing was the thread of continuity. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I also can’t be sure that you aren’t that man, writing to see if I know anything more about all this. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Runes were carved into the golden bands, die writing of the First Men. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In contrast, no early chiefdom not on the verge of statehood developed writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Maybe I should finish writing it in pencil like everyone else?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

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

I couldn’t see what she was writing, only that her hand and pen were flying across the paper, scribbling as though her life depended on it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

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

Like Freak says, reading is just a way of listening, and I could always listen, but writing is like talking, and that's a whole other ball game. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Since the launch of the HeLa production factory at Tuskegee, Gey had been writing a steady stream of letters to other scientists, trying to restrict the way they used Henrietta’s cells. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t sleep so I'm writing that silly woman, Eunice,” she said. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up his pen and turned back to whatever he was writing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I taught creative writing in the famous Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa for a couple of years after that. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

Then she noticed Mohammed’s writing, addressed to her in care of the University of Biafra, in long elegant sweeps. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

New York State, for instance, has not as of this writing executed a single criminal since reinstituting its death penalty in 1995. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

His darling “Lotje” has sent him eggs, butter, cookies, lemonade, bread, cognac, spice cake, flowers, oranges, chocolate, books and writing paper. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But if Missus Stein likes it, I’ll be writing the other maids’ stories and that will be more than enough work. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He took one of the tiny keys off his waistcoat chain, opened the locked drawer to his desk, and pulled out some sheets of thick, cream-colored writing paper. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

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

I still haven't gotten around to writing amusing sketches that I could read aloud at a later date. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

"All right, all right, I'm writing a check now. I'm writing them a blank check." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hill was still up at the whiteboard, apparently writing out an entire soliloquy, so Grace turned to look at Max. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“Start writing Dill a letter of recommendation for college.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

When it was lit and a thread of smoke was curling up from the bowl, he used the pipe to emphasize what he said, drawing little designs, like Chinese writing, in the air. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

While Chapter 12 illustrated those alternatives for the spread of writing, they also apply to the diffusion of technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

I took notes on some of them, writing down the most important facts, then folded those pages into the back of my science notebook. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She says, “Looks like it’s going great on the Dragon, huh, Mason? Look at all your writing!” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The rest of us spent the afternoon writing essays about tolerance and kindness. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“It also gives you a reason for writing, and that’s a good thing.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

After all, no eyewitness accounts exist of the devastation—none of the peoples in the Southeast had any form of writing known today. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Axis orientations affected the rate of spread of crops and livestock, and possibly also of writing, wheels, and other inventions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

At nine o’clock the whole school had to go to their desks and spend one hour writing a letter home to their parents. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He hath spent the Day in writing at my Table. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Minerva always says writing gets things off her chest and she feels better, but I’m no writer, like she is. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is impossible to believe that if he really had carried out the famous experiment himself there would be no mention of this triumph anywhere in his writings. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I never saw a letter from Gram, nor did I ever see my father writing one. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I am getting a bit wobbly because no one has let me eat or drink since yesterday and I have been writing for nine hours. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I’d done only a page and I started to hurry through the rest in impatient and slightly dishonest fashion, writing out the English and translating word by word. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Nico says “we,” but he’s the one doing everything while I’m writing down the steps in my notebook. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She says, “Hi. What are you writing today, Mason?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Some kids from school had come in—paying customers—and she was writing their names in mayonnaise on their sandwiches before pressing her perfect V-tops down onto them. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

A related factor bringing Spaniards to Peru was the existence of writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

How else could Dennis have tolerated my writing almost nothing in the weeks before the bombing? Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, throughout my school and undergraduate years, my training was mainly in languages, history, and writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Like all writing decisions, the amount of signposting requires judgment and compromise: too much, and the reader bogs down in reading the signposts; too little, and she has no idea where she is being led. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

My soul has gotten deeper since I started writing in you. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mustached man was collecting cash and writing down names. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Greek philosophies on the beneficial behavioural qualities of music find striking parallels with Confucius-influenced writings of the second and third centuries bc in China. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A turning point in my writing was the discovery of a short story by James Baldwin, “Sonny’s Blues.” Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I apologize, my lady, but it was specifically requested. I have it in writing.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Lorren brought out a pen and drew a series of hashes through my single line of writing in the ledger book. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He turned around, looking both tense and agitated, and pulled out the straight chair at his mother’s writing table and sat down. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I kept on writing love notes from Lorelei Lumley to slip into Cap’s locker. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

On all these ships there would be symbols and writing. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gradually, the forms of the signs became more abstract, especially when the pointed writing tools were replaced by reed styluses. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z