Writing
- a figure in writing is a type of floating block (text, table, or graphic separate from the main text)
- Figure of speech, also called a rhetorical figure
- Christ figure, a type of character
- in typesetting, text figures and lining figures
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Famous quotes containing the word writing:
“In writing songs I’ve learned as much from Cézanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
“The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.”
—Günther Grass (b. 1927)
“The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer’s life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.”
—Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958)