Sentence examples for cannot write without from inspiring English sources

I cannot write without smoking.

"I cannot write without music" Meyer confesses on her website.

Creatively it might destroy her (she has said she cannot write without anonymity), so it is a deliberately malicious act, too.

He noted that for some people it is "a pastime greatly valued", that some writers and journalists cannot write without smoking, and that others seem to obtain great personal pleasure from smoking after eating "or other activities".

"I cannot write a novel without living".

"You understand that you cannot write about Iraq without knowing the people and the history also?" my friend Ahmad asked me when we first met, on the eve of the war in 2003.

I cannot write about 2012 without emphasizing the impact of social media.

He also admits that he is a "fraud" who "cannot write my own novels without a helper".

She trips herself up when she dismisses minority characters in popular culture as "tokenism", then going on to say she cannot write a minority character without getting flak for it.

"We cannot describe ourselves," Phillips writes, "without also describing what we need to escape from, and what we believe we need to escape to".

The historian of the future cannot write the history of Africa without also mentioning the name of Stanley.