Complex sentence: From 1983 to 1986 he wrote a column for "The Times"; the features editor, Peter Stothard, wrote in 2009 that "there was no one I ever commissioned to write whose articles provoked more rage".
Split into simpler sentences: From 1983 to 1986 he wrote a column for "The Times". The features editor, Peter Stothard, wrote in 2009 that "there was no one I ever commissioned to write whose articles provoked more rage".