But Hopkins insisted that to write at all was, if not a sin, at least a reprehensible frivolity.
Philippa insists to the police that she wrote them many letters detailing Vendice's activities and their human cost, including the drug-related deaths of children as young as 13 in the school where she teaches.
The management pitched her songs written by other songwriters, but she declined, insisting she wanted to write songs herself.
But if his books are easy to read, Kinney insists they are torture to write.
The Huntsman camp insists it's premature to write off his candidacy.
When she talks about A Gate at the Stairs, she sounds wearied by its mood, but insists: "I would like to write more novels".
I had taken the job of writing the film adaptation of Jim Thompson's "Grifters," and the director, Stephen Frears, insisted he wanted Richard Stark to write -- and sign -- the screenplay.
We already insist on teaching children to write before their motor skills are mature, so the youngest ones in a group are really going to struggle.
In August 2016, months after the letter was published in December 2015, Bornstein insisted to NBC that he'd written it, including the sentence, "If elected, Mr. Trump, I can state unequivocally, will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency".
When he started working seriously on the autobiography, in 1906, he insisted that he was going to write the first totally honest autobiography.
