Sentence examples similar to notion writing from inspiring English sources

It's a brilliant notion," wrote Daisy Goodwin in the Sunday Times, while Jane Shilling in the Daily Mail admired a "fascinating social history" that illustrates Virginia Woolf's dictum that clothes "change our view of the world and the world's view of us".

Those are the words of Samuel Beckett, contemplating the notion of writing for radio in a 1956 letter.

In 1984 the British literary critic Ian Hamilton approached Mr. Salinger with the notion of writing his biography.

Later, through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot.

Liu dismissed the notion that writing science fiction for corporate clients compromised something essential about the genre.

He rejected the notion that "writing down what you gave a horse and when" was particularly burdensome.

I realized, the more I struggled, that Mr. Naipaul, in refusing these prompts, was defending a notion of writing that is at war with instantaneousness.

I flirted for a long time with the notion of writing a biography, and in 2005 a colleague of mine at The Week strongly encouraged me.

He scoffed at the notion that writing a song was a magical process, and he added an unusual name to his thank-you list.

The problem is with Ridgway's chic notion of writing a book that encompasses a whole city, a scheme that excuses one too many clichés.

But in his latest book, Geek Sublime, Chandra argues against the beguiling notion that writing code is in itself a truly artistic pursuit.