Sentence examples for was to write about from inspiring English sources

About class, about privilege!" Her gift, he said, was to write about difficult subjects without "jingoism," with a rich sense of psychology.

When I started the book, my goal was to write about insects as insects, to avoid using them simply as a way of understanding people — something that's common in both academic and popular writing on animals.

'He was very good on narcissism when narcissism was all there was to write about, but he's really the perfect example of Fitzgerald's saying that there are no second acts in American lives, only diminuendos.' New York-based critic Benjamin Strong, who called The Good Life 'a triumph' in the Village Voice, disagrees.

Peter Carey's first thought was to write about engines.

I explained it was to write about addiction and heroin.

The idea was "to write about crime and about writing," she said.

To write about whiteness is to write about race".

In other words, the best way to write about ourselves is to write about something specific in the world.

Your job is to write about the life you actually have".

The key is to write about these relationships honestly, to write honest dialogue and in a very distinct voice.

To write a book set in the present, circa 2013, is to write about the distant past.