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This is a guy writing a book, "Ideal Marriage," you know.
“Hope you didn’t believe anything Gorbak’s been saying— he’s been cursed to tell only lies, even in writing.
I studied journalism in college with the intention of expanding my communication and writing skills, but the only thing that I felt connected to in life was drawing.
And toward the end of writing that book there was a documentary that came out.
In the case of nearsightedness, some research suggests that one reason it's becoming more common in some populations is that many people today, including most of us in this room, spend far more time reading, writing and engaging with various types of screen than we do outside, interacting with the world on a bigger scale.
Despite her prolific writing, teaching and activism, de Beauvoir struggled to be taken seriously by her male peers.
She participated in those conversations for the rest of her life; writing fiction, philosophy, and memoirs until her death in 1986.
The world's first writing started in Sumer as a system of accounting, allowing merchants to communicate over long distances with traders abroad.
This early writing style, called cuneiform, was written with a reed stylus pressed into soft clay to make wedge-shaped marks.
But until Enheduanna, this writing mostly took the form of record keeping and transcription, rather than original works attributable to individual writers.
In her writing, she humanized the once aloof gods— now they suffered, fought, loved, and responded to human pleading.
Her odes to Inanna mark the first time an author writes using the pronoun “I,” and the first time writing is used to explore deep, private emotions.
In his writing career spanning over four decades, this man has chosen words with beauty and versatility, like a flower springing to life ... like Mr. Bachchan’s memorable punches ... (Laughter) like a best-selling book of Urdu poetry ... like well ... what do I say, only Javed Akhtar Sahab.
Traditionally, it was thought that making a memory was like writing in a notebook in pen: once the ink had dried, you couldn't change the information.
However, more recent research suggests that making a memory is actually more like writing in a word processor.
I then started writing about Eastern Europe, and eventually I became the BBC's chief correspondent for the region, which is what I was doing in 1989.
It involves a campaign of letter writing, research and phone calls to access my subjects, which can range from Hamas leaders in Gaza to a hibernating black bear in its cave in West Virginia.
Monday, 8 to 9: story writing; 9 to 10: future thinking.
Now, here is a quote from the writing of a London merchant called John Lok, who sailed to west Africa in 1561 and kept a fascinating account of his voyage.
But what is important about his writing is that it represents the beginning of a tradition of telling African stories in the West: A tradition of Sub-Saharan Africa as a place of negatives, of difference, of darkness, of people who, in the words of the wonderful poet Rudyard Kipling, are "half devil, half child."
I teach writing workshops in Lagos every summer, and it is amazing to me how many people apply, how many people are eager to write, to tell stories.
My Nigerian publisher and I have just started a non-profit called Farafina Trust, and we have big dreams of building libraries and refurbishing libraries that already exist and providing books for state schools that don't have anything in their libraries, and also of organizing lots and lots of workshops, in reading and writing, for all the people who are eager to tell our many stories.
Hemingway had his writing space.
So I started writing legal briefs for them.
And he was talking about my writing.
And when I realized that Tim Russert, former moderator of "Meet the Press," was talking about my writing, while I was living in a van in a Wal-Mart parking lot, I started laughing.
And I started writing again.
So he stayed up the whole night, writing away, trying to explain his ideas.
With the invention of writing, you start getting cities.
Language ability is typically measured in two active parts, speaking and writing, and two passive parts, listening and reading.
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