Word: rooney
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...Rooney said he has always had a great love and admiration for the power of the English language. From his days as a student at Alton Academy in Albany, N. Y., where he won awards for his writing, to his time at Colgate, where he was the editor of their literary magazine, he has always wanted to be a writer...
After college he worked as a field writer for the Army's The Stars and Stripes, where he had the chance to work with such journalistic legends as Walter Cronkite and Ernie Pile. Rooney said such figures instilled in him a sense of the power of the written word that has never left...
...fake it when you put it on paper," Rooney said. "When a person can't put it down on paper, chances are that there aren't any ideas there...
...hard to teach people to write because it is hard to teach them to have something to say," Rooney said. "It is easy for teachers to deal with grammar, which can be easily corrected, but you cannot teach someone to have a clear opinion...
...addition to his 23 years in television, Rooney is also a prolific writer. His most recent work is entitled Sincerely, Andy Rooney. He has also contributed articles to magazines ranging from Fine Woodworking to Playboy and Cosmopolitan...