31.   Despite what Hemingway said, writing is not a competitive sport.

32.   Despite the praise, writing is difficult for Ms. McDermott.

33.   Especially in telemovies, where narrative is all-important, writing is the foundation on which everything else stands or falls.

34.   Even now, writing was a transcendent experience.

35.   Enthusiasm invites hyperbole, but writing like that is unlike any other in the language.

36.   Everybody likes to think now that writing is just a form of self-regard.

37.   First, because to write is to practice, with particular intensity and attentiveness, the art of reading.

38.   For a composer, writing for Broadway is a huge investment in time and labor with no guaranteed payoff.

39.   For Achebe, an Igbo by ethnicity and the son of a Christian evangelist, writing in English was never a conscious choice.

40.   For Dove, writing is an incremental process.