Medieval language is dense with abbreviations, because writing material was expensive and books could be published only by copying.
Because such writing looks easy, and because the common man understands and likes it, Mr Causley was often scorned as simplistic and old-fashioned.
They did this because letter writing was the mode of communication that everyone used and the most likely to be targeted for theft.
But something has also been lost along the way, perhaps because that earlier grave subject-matter is lacking or perhaps because the writing in this book is simply slacker than before.
The reason Modern Family gets its phenomenal ratings is because of its writing and characters, not because Cameron and Mitch adopt children.
And I was still writing during those three years because I never stop writing.
Students like creative writing because they cannot fail, since self-expression is difficult to mark.
Some work was "stylish and perceptive" but they also found some scripts hard to assess because of poor writing.
Nikita Khrushchev hated putting things in writing because he couldn't spell.
Because he was writing novels when the form was so new, an argument can be made that Defoe's casting of fiction as fact was simply a daring experiment within an emerging genre.
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Because I'm writing this today, you can tell that somehow I lived to see the sound bite that evening.
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And I'm surrounded by, I guess, I'd call them music geeks, music science geeks, because they're writing albums about science.
Mr. MOTHERSBAUGH: I started writing music for film and TV because I became disenfranchised with pop music and writing music for records.
They zeroed in on Mr. Preston because of his science writing background, which included nonfiction books about astronomy, steel and viruses, as well as a novel about bioterrorism.
Life here at Forbes is a case in point: The company uses Windows computers, bought in volume...well, except for my magazine, where everybody uses Macs...well, except for me, because I'm writing this on a Windows laptop.
"I hated the idea of blogging, because my dream had always been to make money as a writer, so blogging absolutely kills it because you're writing for free, you put it on, and in this country everybody just takes it off and publishes in newspapers, " she said.
"The Cook County Sherriff's Police, despite the fact that the assistant state's attorney told them that they didn't have to bring him back, they thought it would be better if they did bring him back to get this all cleared up because the guy keeps writing letters demanding trial, " Alvarez told reporters.
She memorized it rather than writing it down because she thought she'd have to show it to her interrogators.
OK, sure, headlines are copyright just like any other form of writing but complaining because people put your headlines in front of potential readers just does sound most strange.
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He is also a polarizing figure, drawing opposition from Republicans across the country because of his role in writing the Dodd-Frank law and his pre-crisis support for government housing agencies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Mr. Burnton is a London-based sportswriter for the Guardian who took to writing about wine because he "needed a hobby that could be pursued despite a sudden inability to go out" after his first child was born.
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But Flash predictably wears out because of the amount of the writing you do.
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He and the other writers are writing the Watchmen prequels because they want to.
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Erin had specifically sought out working at the magazine because she admired Jane's writing and wanted to learn from her.
" Responding to a question about "Twilight" on a Yahoo Answers page, a reader wrote, "I never quit reading a book because I think the style of writing is bad.
Because the SEC has not finished writing the rules that would allow crowd-funding under the JOBS Act, these investments were only available to residents of California and New York state, when the Mosaic team has been working with state securities regulators.
This meant that I did more rewriting than writing, which suited me because I doubted my creativity when the page was blank.
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The Rt Rev David Walker, Bishop of Dudley and one of the signatories of the letter, told the BBC that bishops had resorted to writing to the press "because we had tried everything else".
An inordinate number of these career shifts end up being reported in gossip columns, because they are fed by the publicists of celebrities enraged by an unflattering item or because those former staffers are now themselves writing for the gossip pages.
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