61.   If this were being written last year, or the year before, it would be about Claire Danes, Matt Damon, Mark Wahlberg, Parker Posey.

62.   If writing is his first passion, teaching is his second.

63.   In a way, writing had always been a family business.

64.   In Burma, as in other repressive states, writing under censorship is an art form, for both the writer and the clever reader.

65.   Inscribed on the base of the statuettes was writing in a strange language.

66.   Iritani had never considered herself a natural writer -- writing has always been hard work -- but the book was so different from anything she had ever done before.

67.   It occurs to him that perhaps writing is all he can do.

68.   John Steinbeck noted in letters to friends that writing was as necessary to him as breathing.

69.   Later, through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot.

70.   Look, the Internet is so vast that writing about it is a hopeless task.