At present I don't feel that great necessity to write a novel: I could write short stories for the rest of my life.
In setting this path out I shall show why, at the end of his life, Galileo felt compelled (in some sense of necessity) to write the Discourses Concerning the Two New Sciences, which stands as a true completion of his overall project and is not just a reworking of his earlier research that he reverted to after his trial, when he was blind and under house arrest.
"I really started it out of necessity to write".
It's striking that, despite all its sardonic surroundings, the central encounter – which touches on broken friendships, Thomas Mann, coming out of the closet, boys, and the grim necessity of continuing to write – still registers as moving and true.
Of necessity, she had to write, and at the end of the year we had a wonderful account of her stay – which we typed up and printed into a little memoir.
Perhaps it is the memory of that trauma that has persuaded so many of the bankers, politicians and officials I speak to in this country that France and Germany are maximising the potential damage to the eurozone by refusing to acknowledge the economic necessity for Greece to write down the value of its public-sector or sovereign debt by somewhere between 40% and 60%.
From this split, critics and philosophers have rambled on about the disappearance of the world, the prisonhouse of language, the loss of objectivity, and the necessity to approach writing as a free-floating, self-referential game in which words can and should refer only to themselves.
In contrast to formalized media (press or scientific articles, books, even web pages), which have to conform to certain standards and/or size and form limitations, the user comments are, in the studied cases, not bound by form constraints other than necessity to use written language (with the exception of limit of the comment size in YouTube, which had only a minor effect).
The institutional review board at Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital approved the present study (IRB No. 2012-I006) and waived the necessity to obtain written consent because of its retrospective nature.
But how and when does the opportunity to write become necessity?
(Unlike check-cashing customers, payday borrowers are by necessity bank customers — they have to write a postdated check to get a loan).
