Sentence examples for compared writing from inspiring English sources

He compared writing it to "trying to carry a sheet of plywood in a windstorm", his longterm editor Michael Pietsch told the New Yorker.

He compared writing a negative review of the film to "bullying a retarded kid" and said if reviewers wanted to critique his work, they would have to wait till a film was released and pay for it like everybody else.

In a 1977 Paris Review interview, he specifically rejected the tragic glamour of a Berryman, who had compared writing to surgery: "I am obliged to perform in complete darkness / operations of great delicacy / on myself".

Mr. Frankel recalled in an interview that George Bernard Shaw had compared writing a column to "standing under a windmill, no sooner have you ducked one blade than the next one comes down".

I'd say about something, 'That's good,' and he'd say, 'You don't have any taste.' " Mr. Talese, who has compared writing both to passing a kidney stone and to "driving a truck at night without headlights, losing your way along the road and spending a decade in a ditch," is a painfully slow worker -- a tinkerer and reviser, an obsessive typer and re-typer.

French playwright Moliere compared writing to prostitution: You start off doing it for love, then for a few friends and finally for money.

First LH compared written notes and the recorded version to make the data complete, and then listed all emergent questions, topics and concepts in a conceptual framework.

I usually compare writing to listening: I don't know exactly what I'm listening for, but I try to listen anyway".

Pietsch remembers being on a car ride with Wallace and hearing him compare writing the novel to "trying to carry a sheet of plywood in a windstorm".

"You have to do far more immersion," Quinones said when asked to compare writing a book to a newspaper article.

We developed a writing program using the Nomon method, the Nomon Keyboard (Figure 2), and conducted a study to compare writing with Nomon to writing with a popular commercial scanning interface, The Grid 2 [16] (Figure 3).