“Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.” WritingDifferentMajorsHardestResolutionSensitivityAmbiguityUndertakings Author:Graham Nelson
“Some artists will tell you that's all they want to do is write their own music, and that's great, but George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, they didn't write everything they recorded, and they've had major, major careers. I think it's all about the best song.” ThinkingWantWritingArtistSongCareersMajorsBrooksKenny Author:Jake Owen
“I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I would've liked to major in writing, but they didn't offer a major in that.” WritingWarCollegeBattleOffersMajorsCivil WarGettysburg Author:Jerry Spinelli
“The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television.” WritingVoiceHeardTelevisionMajorsRadioNewspapers Author:Galina Vishnevskaya
“I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.” IfsWritingLooksSometimesStoriesCoursesOpportunityTermFictionClassCreativePaperMajorsHistoricalJournalismIf I CouldHistorical FictionPapersCreative WritingScandinaviansTerm Paper Author:George R. R. Martin
“I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.” WritingMy OwnGriefDiseaseMajorsLosingDecidedAffectedRefugeMobility Author:Tara Brach
“My greatest affliction... is perhaps the major theme of my writings, the affliction of loneliness that follows me like a shadow, a very ponderous shadow too heavy to drag after me all of my days and nights.” WritingNightLonelinessMajorsShadowHeavyThemeDragAfflictionDay And NightFollow Me Book:Memoirs Source: Memoirs
“I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.” WayWritingBookSometimesFoundMajorsExcitingEditingManuscriptsRevisionFresh StartShredding Author:William Manchester
“As it now stands, I Enoch appears to consist of the following five major divisions: (1) The Book of the Watchers (chaps. 1-36); (2) The Book of the Similitudes (chaps. 37-7l)-, (3) The Book of Astronomical Writings (chaps. 72-82); (4) The Book of Dream Visions (chaps. 83-90); and (5) The Book of the Epistle of Enoch (chaps. 91-107).” WritingBookDreamVisionFiveMajorsFollowingDivisionWatchersChaps Author:Craig A. Evans