Writing
Writing is the representation of language in a textual medium through the use of a set of signs or symbols (known as a writing system). It is distinguished from illustration, such as cave drawing and painting, and non-symbolic preservation of language via non-textual media, such as magnetic tape audio.
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... culture emerged in the 1970s as part of a new style of writing ... These pencils produced very fine lines, as opposed to traditional Japanese writing that varied in thickness and was vertical ... characters and they added little pictures to their writing, such as hearts, stars, smiley faces, and letters of the Latin alphabet ...
... The origin and the timing of the writings are widely disputed, because there are no precise evidence in situ, the slabs cannot be carbon dated, because of the bad ... the presence of influences of Greek, Phoenician and Etruscan in the writings, make it unlikely that they date from this period ...
... "Much of Carman's writing in poetry and prose during the decade preceding World War I is as repetitive as the title of Echoes from Vagabondia (1912) intimates" says the DCB ...
... As a teenager, DeLillo wasn't interested in writing until taking a summer job as a parking attendant, where hours spent waiting and watching over vehicles led to a reading habit ... by saying "I had a personal golden age of reading, in my 20s and my early 30s, and then my writing began to take up so much time" ... who was a major influence on DeLillo's earliest attempts at writing in his late teens ...
... film about a writer who has trouble writing." Lost Weekend was a distinguished offspring for the reconciled couple — they left Oscar night with three Awards Best Picture ...
More definitions of "writing":
- (noun): The activity of putting something in written form.
Example: "She did the thinking while he did the writing"
Synonyms: committal to writing
- (noun): Letters or symbols written or imprinted on a surface to represent the sounds or words of a language.
Example: "He turned the paper over so the writing wouldn't show"; "the doctor's writing was illegible"
- (noun): The work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect).
Example: "The writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing"
Synonyms: written material, piece of writing
- (noun): The act of creating written works.
Example: "Writing was a form of therapy for him"
Synonyms: authorship, composition, penning
Famous quotes containing the word writing:
“When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.”
—James Thurber (1894–1961)
“The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“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)