Although Mr Cornwell has lived in America since 1979, when he joined his future wife and gave up a career as a television producer to write because that meant he would not need a work permit, he has retained a very British sense of irony.

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He said it would not have taken a mastermind to write the story in the Sunday Herald.

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Mossberg says that he has made the conscious choice not to write as often as Lessig would like about broader tech issues.

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At the inquest into Mr Knight's death, the deputy coroner did not make specific comments about the junction, but did say he would write to the local authorities about it.

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Finally the attorney suggested the other guy and I write something and he would let us know if he liked it or not.

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Samuel Fuller, who was a novelist as well as movie director, used to write up these big storyboards, not necessarily with ideas, but he would have this different - the sequence of scenes in different colors: red for a romantic scene, blue for an action sequence - and try to vary his pace that way.

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In fits of creativity, he would write out flow diagrams for the system on the walls and doors, so as not to forget them.

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L. Mencken did not write to inform, educate, and improve his fellow man, a project he would have deemed insane.

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Energy, Enterprise and Tourism Minister Fergus Ewing said he would write to the UK Treasury to invite them to explain why assistance dogs' food did not have a zero rate of VAT, to ask the about a 5% rate as an alternative and to invite them to do so "as quickly as possible".

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