Word: write
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when I was 28, I decided to write a play myself. Before, I'd written poetry, essays, short stories and two appallingly bad novels. I'd failed at all branches of literature. At my place at 238 West Fourth Street, I typed on a massive old typewriter I had stolen--"liberated," I called it--from Western Union. In three weeks I produced The Zoo Story, based partly on some of the characters I met delivering telegrams...
...they had their father committed to a psychiatric institution for an addiction to painkillers. Upon release, he said he would never give them a dime. Now Deanna Brown Thomas and Yamma Brown Lumar are suing him for $1 million, alleging that they are owed back royalties for helping him write 25 songs, including many of his signature hits such as Get Up Offa That Thing. They were apparently as precocious as Mozart, since they were 3 and 6 at the time. Their names do appear on the copyright, but Brown has yet to deliver any cash...
...raped [date]” in black permanent marker had been followed by a second date in white-out.To the left of the two dates there had been a large paragraph on how rape is a crime that needs to be reported. By all means write here, it read, but report...
Seth A. Mnookin ’94, a senior writer at Newsweek. He covers media, politics and national affairs I don’t know how to write first drafts that work. I don’t know how to hide my nervousness when I’m interviewing someone important. I don’t know how to pronounce a lot of words that I insist on using in conversation (until yesterday, I thought portentous was pronounced pôr-ten’shus, not pôr-ten’tus). And I don’t know...
...don’t understand. It can be a little embarrassing to admit the colossal lack of functional intelligence that I have in computers, but I usually just suck it up and ask for help. When I was in college, I used to convince professors to let me write out all of my papers by hand, because I couldn’t type. I would tell them it would allow them to see the material in a new way, to expand their connection to the prose. When I had professors who wouldn’t go for it, I would...