They also omitted other things.

Mr. Lukin, now 81 and still active in a Building Engineering Institute here, told reporters who visited his apartment that the publishing agency had told him to omit "certain things."

It is no revelation that campaigns conspicuously omit things.

But you do sometimes omit things,?

A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.

(The government's published figures suggest a lower amount, but they omit things such as international aviation.)

As Hemingway said, "If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows."

"I spent a lot of time omitting and adding things," she says, before going down to spend a few minutes practicing on stage.

Though clearly pleased with such high marks for accuracy, Tobias Wolff admits to having omitted things from "This Boy's Life" -real events he chose to leave out lest the true account of his life seem too markedly patterned and shaped.

I don't deliberately omit things from my descriptions.