The late R. G. Collingwood, a philosopher whose work has proved helpful to many students of literature, once wrote ``::

Scarcity of paper caused many Southerners to adopt the practice of cross-writing, i.e., after writing from left to right of the page in the usual manner, they gave the sheet a half turn and wrote from end to end across the lines previously written.

The gentle Channing, revered by all Bostonians, orthodox or Unitarian, wrote to a friend in Louisville that among its many virtues Boston did not abound in a tolerant spirit, that the yoke of opinion crushed individuality of judgment and action: `` No city in the world is governed so little by a police, and so much by mutual inspections and what is called public sentiment.

Though Aristotle wrote many elegant treatises and dialogues ( Cicero described his literary style as " a river of gold "), it is thought that the majority of his writings are now lost and only about one-third of the original works have survived.

Aristotle wrote many dialogues, only fragments of which survived.

The Middle Ages have known many arabic writers who revolutionized the Arab world literature with authors like Ahmad al-Buni and Ibn Manzur and Ibn Khaldoun who wrote the Muqaddimah while staying in Algeria, and many others.

Harris dates studies of both to Classical Greece and Classical Rome, specifically, to Herodotus, often called the " father of history " and the Roman historian, Tacitus, who wrote many of our only surviving contemporary accounts of several ancient Celtic and Germanic peoples.

He wrote many theological and dogmatic treatises, as well as a few grammatical works and a number of poems.

He wrote many commentaries on the works of Aristotle, extant are those on the Prior Analytics, Topics, Meteorology, Sense and Sensibilia, and Metaphysics.

His contemporary biographer Asser wrote that many nobles baulked at the new demands placed upon them even though they were for " the common needs of the kingdom ".

He spent a great deal of time working on these books, which he tells us he gradually wrote through the many stressful times of his reign to refresh his mind.

Ibn Idhari wrote that the name was suggested by Ibn Yasin in the " persevering in the fight " sense, to boost morale after a particularly hard-fought battle in the Draa valley c. 1054, in which they had taken many losses.

He wrote many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy.

Born in 1855, Dr Leonard Cockayne ( generally recognised as the greatest botanist who has lived, worked, and died in New Zealand ) worked extensively on native plants throughout New Zealand and wrote many notable botanical texts.

Dürer wrote of his desire to draw Luther in his diary in 1520: " And God help me that I may go to Dr. Martin Luther ; thus I intend to make a portrait of him with great care and engrave him on a copper plate to create a lasting memorial of the Christian man who helped me overcome so many difficulties.

Yet archaeologists have increasingly come to incorporate many of the insights from archaeoastronomy into archaeology textbooks and, as mentioned above, some students wrote archaeology dissertations on archaeoastronomical topics.

Keith Kintigh wrote: " To put it bluntly, in many cases it doesn't matter much to the progress of anthropology whether a particular archaeoastronomical claim is right or wrong because the information doesn ’ t inform the current interpretive questions.

" Comics ,” wrote Capp in 1970, “ can be a combination of the highest quality of art and text, and many of them are .” Capp would produce many giveaway educational comic books and public services pamphlets, spanning several decades, for the Red Cross, the Department of Civil Defense, the Department of the Navy, the U. S. Army, the Anti-Defamation League, the Department of Labor, Community Chest ( a forerunner of United Way ), and the Job Corps.

During the 3rd and 4th centuries many ecclesiastics and monks wrote in Coptic.

" Stroustrup also wrote what many consider to be the standard textbook for the language, The C ++ Programming Language, which is now in its third edition.

He also wants to instruct the reader by spiritual example, and to entertain, and to the latter end he adds stories about many of the places and people about which he wrote.

Lloyd George and the Conservative leader Andrew Bonar Law wrote a joint letter of support to candidates to indicate they were considered the official Coalition candidates – this " coupon " as it became known was issued against many sitting Liberal MPs, often to devastating effect, though not against Asquith himself.

Thomas Carlyle translated Goethe ’ s novel into English, and after its publication in 1824, many British authors wrote novels inspired by it.

Moore also wrote a non-fiction book, The Green Berets, about the force.

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

Marx also wrote for his own enjoyment, writing both non-fiction and fiction.

Authors who write both fiction and non-fiction, or in different genres, may use different pen names to avoid confusing their readers, as in the case of mathematician Charles Dodgson, who wrote fantasy novels under the pen name Lewis Carroll and mathematical treatises under his own name.

London was a passionate advocate of unionization, socialism, and the rights of workers and wrote several powerful works dealing with these topics such as his dystopian novel, The Iron Heel and his non-fiction exposé, The People of the Abyss.

Dreiser was a committed socialist, and wrote several non-fiction books on political issues.

In a writing career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and notable works of non-fiction, including biographies of other important fantasy authors.

Similarly, an author who writes both fiction and non-fiction ( such as the mathematician and fantasy writer Charles Dodgson, who wrote as Lewis Carroll ) may use a pseudonym for fiction writing.

While most of his published works were novels, he also wrote the non-fiction historical account, Killing Custer: The Battle of Little Bighorn and the Fate of the Plains Indians.

Perhaps because of this, it was the last short story Heinlein wrote ; the remaining quarter-century of his career was devoted to writing novels and non-fiction essays.

She wrote the biography entitled Jane Austen, which won the $ 25, 000 Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction in April 2002, an award accepted by her daughter Meg on her behalf in Toronto, Ontario, on April 22, 2002.

In 1963, he wrote a non-fiction work about the Eichmann case: Criminal Case 40 / 61.

William S. Burroughs, who briefly dabbled with Scientology, wrote extensively about it during the late 1960s, weaving some of its jargon into his fictional works, as well as authoring non-fiction essays about it.

* Bruce Chatwin wrote the fiction / non-fiction blended novel, The Songlines in exploration of some important aboriginal concepts.

Joseph Nathan Kane ( January 23, 1899-September 22, 2002 ) was an American non-fiction writer and journalist, who wrote what the Chronicle of Higher Education calls " some of the most widely used reference works in publishing history.

Merton wrote more than 70 books, mostly on spirituality, social justice and a quiet pacifism, as well as scores of essays and reviews, including his best-selling autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain ( 1948 ), which sent scores of World War II veterans, students, and even teen-agers flocking to monasteries across the US, and was also featured in National Reviews list of the 100 best non-fiction books of the century.

Also an author, Shaw wrote both fiction and non-fiction writings.

Montgomery later wrote a profile of the singer for Courageous Women ( 1934 ), a non-fiction work.

* Casey Swint ( 1904 – 1999 )-weekly editor of Atlanta Journal Constitution, wrote Keys to the City ( non-fiction book about influence of political bosses on Atlanta politics ).

In the 1980s and 1990s, he exhibited art and also wrote a number of non-fiction pamphlets, magazines, and books, and edited anthologies.

Finding that he could write non-fiction well, Ellis researched and wrote on human sexuality.

He also wrote two non-fiction books on bullfighting, entitled Death in the Afternoon ( 1932 ) and The Dangerous Summer ( 1959 ).

She wrote four novels, and several non-fiction books on regional topics including Florida birdwatching and David Fairchild, the entomologist turned biologist who imagined a botanical park in Miami.

Des Barres, who wrote two books detailing her experiences as a groupie – I'm With The Band ( 1987 ) and Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up ( 1993 ) – as well as another non-fiction book, Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music Babylon, asserts that a groupie is to a rock band as Mary Magdalene was to Jesus.

Among her most important mentors were Columbia professors Jacques Barzun and Lionel Trilling, while Clifton Fadiman was an important inspiration: She wrote about these three in her final non-fiction work, When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My Teachers Barzun, Fadiman, Trilling ( 2002 ).