71.   Meredith said later that writing the messages is a way for young people to purge their grief.

72.   Not, I hasten to say, that writing is ever all that hard.

73.   One wonders if, like surgery and sausage making, writing should be an activity that stays behind the veil.

74.   Or perhaps writing is not your vocation after all.

75.   Peck believes that writing the book was a form of therapy for him.

76.   Reading novels seems to me such a normal activity, while writing them is such an odd thing to do.

77.   She thought that writing was a waste of time.

78.   Since writing obituaries was basic training for newspapers, desperation suggested a return to first principles.

79.   The acting is sufficient, but the directing and writing are unexceptional.

80.   The most gripping conversations whose records Roth produces in this new book are with writers for whom writing was a matter of life and death.