Word: writings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...whole notion of character development. I see each book as a novel, but then I see the whole series as a novel - one big long novel. And so the character is always growing. If you know everything from the beginning, it's not interesting. It's hard to write...
What I do is I write every day, every single day in the morning. I just start writing. And things come up. And I'm not unaware of them, but I'm not completely in control of them either. Unconscious material start to become conscious. And when I stop writing, all during the day and that night, things are percolating. I wake up in the morning and there's more there. Things I didn't realize the day before. I'm completely confident in that. That's how I approach writing. So I'm always writing, and my writing always...
...write off Aceh yet. Thanks largely to four weekly flights from Kuala Lumpur operated by the budget carrier AirAsia, tourists are trickling into Banda Aceh, the provincial capital, and for good reason. The city itself is leafy and slow-paced, while Acehnese people are proud, hospitable and keen to make up for years of isolation. Drive out along the west coast and you'll find white-sand bays studded with jungle-clad islands, beaches where 900-kg turtles lay their eggs, and forests where tigers prowl and gibbons peer down from the trees...
...every exam students must write “I pledge my honor that I have not violated the honor code during this examination,” and sign their names. But Peter Dunbar, chair of the Princeton Honor Committee, says that the school’s honor code is much more than a sentence atop an exam page...
...singularity of Steinberg’s mode of writing helps explain the curious sight of many Jewish public and literary luminaries—Elie Wiesel, Cynthia Ozick and Harold Kushner among them—all suddenly seizing the coattails of this rather obscure rabbi now six decades deceased, and adorning “The Prophet’s Wife” with glowing blurbs, introductions and even back-of-the-book commentaries. If there is a lesson beyond the theological to be derived from “The Prophet’s Wife,” it is that this...