Still another, annoyed by the brevity of a recently received missive, wrote: `` yore letter was short and sweet, jist like a roasted maget ''.

Extremely prolific for a few years, van Vogt wrote a large number of short stories.

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

The Swiss Psychologist Carl Jung wrote a short Gnostic treatise in 1916 called The Seven Sermons to the Dead, which called Abraxas a God higher than the Christian God and Devil, that combines all opposites into one Being.

He founded the short lived Campaign for Social Democracy ( CFSD ) thereafter, and wrote a book about events surrounding the by-election called The Future of the Left – Lincoln and After ( 1972 ).

At Esprit, Marker wrote political commentaries, poems, short stories and ( with Bazin ) film reviews.

** Note: under the pseudonym " Jacopo Berenizi " Marker wrote the commentary for this short about whale hunters in the Azores.

** Note: Marker wrote the commentary for this fictional short ( Film Comment ).

** Note: Marker wrote and spoke all the commentary for this short film about fruit juice in Alexandrine verse ( Film Comment ).

* Anne McCaffrey wrote short stories and novels known as The Ship Series ( 1961 -) where otherwise crippled humans live on as the brains of starships and large space stations.

For nine years after his father died, he worked the night shift wrapping bread at a Los Angeles bakery, attended USC, reviewed some movies, and wrote 88 short stories and six novels that were rejected for publication.

" In Mexico he wrote 30 scripts under pseudonyms, such as Gun Crazy ( 1950 ), based on a short story by MacKinlay Kantor, who was the front for the screenplay.

Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories featuring Holmes, and all but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend, assistant, and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson.

In 1746 he wrote his first original work: the Pensées philosophiques, and he added to this a short complementary essay on the sufficiency of natural religion.

In 1909, Jones wrote the short Pronunciation of English, a book which he later radically revised.

Runyon frequently contributed sports poems to the American on boxing and baseball themes, and also wrote numerous short stories and essays.

The South Galatian view holds that Paul wrote Galatians before or shortly after the First Jerusalem Council, probably on his way to it, and that it was written to churches he had presumably planted during either his time in Tarsus ( he would have traveled a short distance, since Tarsus is in Cilicia ) after his first visit to Jerusalem as a Christian, or during his first missionary journey, when he traveled throughout southern Galatia.

As Weizenbaum later wrote, " I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people.

In 1947, Bradbury wrote a short story titled " Bright Phoenix " ( later revised for publication in a 1963 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ).

Olympe de Gouges wrote a number of plays, short stories, and novels.

In 1960 Dyson wrote a short paper for the journal Science, entitled " Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of Infrared Radiation ".

William Faulkner who wrote novels and short stories in the Southern Gothic genre.

For events of short durations in the past, the distinction often coincides with the distinction in the English language between the simple past " X-ed ," as compared to the progressive " was X-ing " ( compare " I wrote the letters this morning " ( i. e. finished writing the letters: an action completed ) and " I was writing letters this morning ").

In addition to his works directly addressing problem solving, Pólya wrote another short book called Mathematical Methods in Science, based on a 1963 work supported by the National Science Foundation, edited by Leon Bowden, and published by the Mathematical Association of America ( MAA ) in 1977.

His father, William, was a naval surgeon who later wrote novels and short stories, some of which included illustrations by his son.

Eldest of the seven, Benjamin Franklin, a New Englander transplanted to Philadelphia, wrote the most dazzling success story in our history.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

`` Speaking of nonism: the other day, in a story about a sit-down demonstration, the Paris Herald Tribune wrote, ' The non-violence became noisier.

I wrote a few years ago that one of the cardinal rules of writing is that the reader should be able to get some idea of what the story is about.

I visited the bank in March and wrote a story about the situation.

I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:

Given that John of Worcester wrote his chronicle after the eruption of the Canterbury – York supremacy struggle, the story of Ealdred renouncing any claims to Worcester needs to be considered suspect.

In the biography, Paul Allen wrote, regarding a suggestion in Cosmopolitan that his plays were becoming autobiographical: " If we take that to mean that his plays tell his own life story, he still hasn't started.

Early in her career at the paper, she wrote a controversial story in which she examined the failings of the popular chef Emeril Lagasse.

It is impossible to make a blanket generalization about how the blind were treated in literature beyond that point – they were marvelous, gifted, evil, malicious, ignorant, wise, helpless, innocent, or burdensome depending upon who wrote the story – except to say that blindness is perceived to be such a loss that it leaves an indelible mark on a person ’ s character.

In Gregory ’ s day, history was not recognized as an independent field of study ; it was a branch of grammar or rhetoric, and historia ( defined as ‘ story ’) summed up the approach of the learned when they wrote what was, at that time, considered ‘ history .’ Gregory ’ s Dialogues Book Two, then, an authentic medieval hagiography cast as a conversation between the Pope and his deacon Peter, is designed to teach spiritual lessons.

John Napier wrote, " I do not feel impressed with Mr. Wallace's story " regarding having over of film showing Bigfoot.

Paul Abbott was a story editor on the programme in the 1980s and began writing episodes in 1989, but left in 1993 to produce Cracker, for which he later wrote, before creating his own highly acclaimed dramas such as Touching Evil and Shameless.

He wrote one Uncle Scrooge story, three Donald Duck stories and from 1970-1974 was the main writer for the Junior Woodchucks comic book ( issues 6 through 25 ).

Despite struggling through the task of plotting a story, his cadenced dialogue and cryptic narrations were musical, evoking the dark alleys and tough thugs, rich women and powerful men about whom he wrote.

A historian from Slesvig, Ulrik Petersen ( 1656 – 1735 ), wrote in the late 17th century that the flag hung in Slesvig cathedral till about 1660 until it simply crumbled away, thus ending its more than 400-year-old story.

Since then McLean has stated that the lyrics are also somewhat autobiographical and present an abstract story of his life from the mid-1950s until the time he wrote the song in the late 1960s.

Realizing the public interest in the topic, he wrote " The Gold-Bug " incorporating ciphers as part of the story.

Show creators Julia Smith and Tony Holland also wrote a book about the show in 1987, entitled EastEnders: The Inside Story ( ISBN 978-0-563-20601-9 ), telling the story of how the show made it to screen.

Blyton wrote hundreds of other books for young and older children: novels, story collections and some non-fiction.

He also wrote the horror story The Haunted and the Haunters or The House and the Brain ( 1859 ).

Coppola wrote a brief draft story idea in one night.

Saxo Grammaticus wrote in his Gesta Danorum another story about Frigg: