| 单词 | writer |
| 例句 | These three writers are very unlike each other. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The Roman writers who told the story somehow got the sisters confused and said that the tongueless Philomela was the nightingale, which was obviously absurd. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Since readers tend to link a phrase to the words that came just before it, they will misunderstand a sentence when the writer had a more remote association in mind. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Great thinkers, teachers, writers, dramatists, and artists shaped its colorful past. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z Sometimes I discussed the definitions with Dad, and if we didn’t agree with what the dictionary writers said, we sat down and wrote a letter to the publishers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “She would say fellow writer,” thought Francie, still jealous about the play. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I read hard, discarding a writer as soon as I felt that I had grasped his point of view. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “They buy millions of them. There are lots of writers who make millions by writing romance novels.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Many of the men and women carrying placards were old friends of mine, and they were chanting for higher wages for Works Progress Administration artists and writers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Stead is a very famous writer in England,” Aunt Daisy said. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z Instead of thanking God he thanks Gogol, the Russian writer who had saved his life, when Patty enters the waiting room. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He was a struggling writer at the time, but he was so moved by the newspaper reports of the suffering that he donated sixpence to the relief fund, all that he had in his pocket. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z “Exactly. Why these ten? Why not ten other writers?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z But, as the sessions got under way, there was a sense of looseness, bewilderment, and dissatisfaction among the writers, most of whom were young, eager, and on the verge of doing their best work. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A user of force or a writer of tickets? Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Writing about the Nation of Islam was the path to success for most of the black writers who now are recognized. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Several centuries of great writers—Milton, Shakespeare, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Austen, Thurber, Faulkner, Baldwin—have voted with their pens, and the answer is yes. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One more or less appalled New York writer that year noted that “if Stanford had not been using a clumsily-built Western shell they might have won.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z One writer who signed his name “A Hint” said the cause of the fever was the stinking barrels of rotting garbage routinely found in backyards and basements. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He knew also that before launching the field of landscape architecture, Olmsted had been a writer and editor who had journeyed throughout the antebellum South exploring the culture and practice of slavery. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to be president; I wanted to be a writer. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been well conditioned by the world in which I grew up, so I did not yet dare take the idea of becoming a writer seriously. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z As we’ll see, a writer must constantly reconcile the two sides of word order: a code for information, and a sequence of mental events. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z His daughter, writer Norah Christianson, remembers that he had “the body of a dancer, lithe and wiry and thin, everything in balance,” a physique ideally suited to the pitch and yaw of a horse’s withers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course no writer works that way, but that is irrelevant. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I’m a joke as far as Buz is concerned. He thinks people are strange if they even read books. Besides,” I added bitterly, “what would a writer be doing working out of a slave market?” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z My habit of reading made me a confident speaker and writer of English. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z You're like the best writer, Blue, and normally I try to check everything like three times because I don't want to disappoint you. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Had a black boy announced that he aspired to be a writer, he would have been unhesitatingly called crazy by his pals. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s one of the reasons a writer should mutter, mumble, or orate a draft of his prose to himself, ideally after enough time has elapsed that it is no longer familiar. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Somewhere in this vast region is Pluto’s palace, but beyond saying that it is many-gated and crowded with innumerable guests, no writer describes it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “She was one of the most respected food writers anywhere.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z In spite of his father’s occasional suggestions, he has never been inspired to read a word of Gogol, or any Russian writer, for that matter. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "I don't know, because Shakespeare is a really good writer?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z At first, when she introduced him as a writer, he wanted to correct her: journalist, not writer. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But Cletus told her that coffee had made me tough, and besides that all writers needed something to see them through those long novels, and better it was coffee than Jim Beam whiskey. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z This feat requires what the early-twentieth-century American writer Sinclair Lewis called a “willingness to sift the sanctified lies,” a chore that is hard enough when the “lie” is trivial. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Mom was also a writer and was always typing away on novels, short stories, plays, poetry, fables, and children’s books, which she illustrated herself. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z All writers wore glasses and the sooner I got into them, I figured, the better. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In turn, the act of revelation helps the writer better understand his own feelings. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Though no writer can avoid idioms altogether—they’re part of the English lexicon, just like individual words—good writers reach for fresh similes and metaphors that keep the reader’s sensory cortexes lit up. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But wasn’t she—that was, Briony the writer—supposed to be so worldly now as to be above such nursery-tale ideas as good and evil? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z She wished she was a famous writer already, and didn’t have to go through the unfamous stage. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I wanted to tell him I knew what the word meant; I was a writer. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I’m forty-three years old, true, and I’m a writer now, and a long time ago I walked through Quang Ngai Province as a foot soldier. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, the second label should easily call to mind the first one, so that readers don’t have to rack their brains figuring out who or what the writer is talking about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But now, as she came toward him, Dustfinger thought he saw something like concern in her eyes, perhaps even pity....What had that writer fellow said to make the girl look at him like that? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Why in heaven's name did you yell "Wake up"? The writer chose to emphasize the question, not the exclamation. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A little blob of ink marred the white page opposite, as though the writer, in impatience, had shaken her pen to make the ink flow freely. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z How can a writer reconcile these irreconcilable demands about where the words should go in a sentence? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Veteran turf writer John Lardner printed the information, “but this,” he admitted, “had little or no bearing on the race.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She is there to see what the writer will do about it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Your sister wanted to be a writer,” Mr. P said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z I was looking for the tomb of a famous writer—Marcel Proust, I think, or maybe George Sand. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She was overheard by writer Teresa Dean, who wrote a daily column from the fair. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z This moment, this here, this right now is my teacher saying, You're a writer, as she holds the poem I am just beginning. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z She and Dad have a deal where she’s pretending she’s on a rural writer’s retreat and getting her writing work done. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z “He had begun to develop a sense of responsibility,” White told another writer. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Some of the best writers in America publish in it,” he explained. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z All I’d have to do is match the street to one of each writer’s books. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z After all of his months of antics, after the weighing-in act that Cassius had put on, this calmness should have tipped off some of the sports writers who were predicting Clay’s slaughter. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Evenings were often given over to discussions and meetings with local poets, painters, musicians, and writers of fiction, at which they praised or condemned other artists, scorned the marketplace and courted it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The best guides to a knowledge of Greek mythology are the Greek writers, who believed in what they wrote. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z What was the writer of the note afraid of? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “I’m not much of a writer,” I said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Although not reaching the virtuosic literary heights of incarceration essays penned by writers such as Thoreau or Martin Luther King Jr., the document was an oddly compelling account of the execrable details of his experience. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “You ever come when those big-time writers are here for their meetings? Once there was so many folks upstairs, Miss Kimble came downstairs to get extra chairs.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z I told him “yours, of course,” and that I only made the objection in my position as a writer. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m forty-three years old, and a writer now, still dreaming Linda alive in exactly the same way. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In return for shelter, the ants attack anything that touches the tree—insect, bird, unwary writer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And if there is a reasonable chance that readers will misinterpret a statistical tendency as an absolute law, a responsible writer will anticipate the oversight and qualify the generalization accordingly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It’s just that good writers don’t flaunt this anxiety in every passage they write; they artfully conceal it for clarity’s sake. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Go down to the State Street Library. They have a whole room full of Southern writers. Faulkner, Eudora Welty—” Aibileen gives me a dry cough. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Pilgrim writers universally reported that Wampanoag families were close and loving—more so than English families, some thought. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The mother of this murdered black boy was then taking her case before journalists and writers. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I’m not gonna lie, I had to read the first page over and over again to know what the hell the writer was even saying, ’cause she doesn’t use regular English in her book. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The reader has to scan the sentence several times to figure out which of two meanings the writer intended, or worse, she may come away with the wrong meaning without realizing it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Later I learned what had happened: the writers of the club had decided to “use” me to oust the painters, who were party members, from the leadership of the club. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the North Sea in Britain’s Victorian empire, artists, writers and composers were dredging Albion’s Arthurian roots, too. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z In a similar manner, centuries of respectable writers have gradually shifted the collective consensus of what is right and wrong while shrugging off now-forgotten edicts by self-appointed guardians of the language. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In Malcolm X’s long dealings with the staff of the Harlem weekly newspaper Amsterdam News, he had come to admire Executive Editor James Hicks and the star feature writer James Booker. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "I think Mr C. S. Lewis is a very good writer. But he has one failing. There are no funny bits in his books." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z As you must know, it would be unusual for us to publish a complete novella by an unknown writer, or for that matter a well-established one. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But her gender proved to be a disadvantage, and Froelick had to work as a secretary for more than a year before Warner Brothers promoted her to writer. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z A writer might think that it’s unsubtle to announce the topic in so many words, as in “This paper is about hamsters.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This is thanks to visiting New York with my mother, who is a college professor and writer. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Debate started and I rose and explained what the clubs had meant to young writers and begged for their continuance. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The writer George Orwell published a novel, Burmese Days, and several essays about life there. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The “typical” connectives in the charts, however, are only typical, and writers can leave them out when the connection is obvious to the reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It may seem obvious that a writer should begin by laying her topic on the table for the reader to see, but not all writers do. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The great statesmen, the great writers, the great composers, as taught in schools, were all white. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z In December anonymous letter writers to The Federal Gazette condemned the committee members for seizing power so arrogantly. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Even if we were being shown a picture of a famous writer or world leader, and they happened to have a cigarette in their hand, then the whole lesson would grind to a halt. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He goes off, and I’m alone with the keys, the writers, and the screen. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z This family saga is extremely well written, but the parts dealing with war, writers and the emancipation of women aren’t very good. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “The producers are terrified of that new show Seal Squad Seven. Anyway, we’re going to shoot tomorrow. At the ranch. The writers figured out a way for the action to take place in our barn.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z And all three differ from self-conscious, relativistic, ironic, or postmodern styles, in which “the writer’s chief, if unstated, concern is to escape being convicted of philosophical naivete about his own enterprise.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z To keep the text coherent, the writer must allow the reader to keep track of these themes by referring to each in a consistent way or by explaining their connection. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She laughed when I asked how librarians can remember titles, writers, and numbers too. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z When she said, “The great Armenian-American writer who lived and wrote in California,” he said, “Oh yes, oh yes!” Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Kepler was a brilliant thinker and a lucid writer, but he was a disaster as a classroom teacher. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A moment later, our resident writer and another fella stumbled by, singing loudly about dames. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z He speaks in poetry by the great Persian writers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Two minutes later, Spoon said, “It’s a quote from Richard Jefferies, a nineteenth-century English nature writer noted for his depiction of English rural life in essays, books of natural history, and novels.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z There is a kind of writer who makes issues of usage impossible to ignore. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Plus, I'd end up in New York, where all the writers ended up. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z This writer he is named after—Gogol isn’t his first name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Not much there for the budding writer either. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “She is a writer as well! What do you suppose she writes with?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “You worked willingly enough to organize white writers,” he cut at me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The reason that the task is so challenging is that the main resource that English syntax makes available to writers—left-to-right ordering on a page—has to do two things at once. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The problem is that the order in which thoughts occur to the writer is different from the order in which they are easily recovered by a reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The great German writer and statesman Johann Wolfgang von Goethe later marveled at how easily she moved back and forth between art and science, between the “inspection of nature and the aims of painting.” The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z No ancient writer can compare with him in this respect. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z More generally, a modifier can dangle when its implied subject is the writer and the reader, as in To summarize and In order to start the motor in the examples above. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Wilhelm Muller, the writer of many of his song lyrics, died aged thirty-three. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Then, in 1968, I entered a contest for black writers run by the Council on Interracial Books for Children. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z A writer for Chicago magazine described Barack as “a tall, affable workaholic,” suggesting that he should someday run for office, an idea that he simply shrugged off. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I scoffed at this, suspecting the writer had no knowledge of women and even less liking for them. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Eugenia”—Missus Whitworth smiles—“I understand you aim to be a writer. What kinds of things do you like to write?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Richard wished he hadn’t said he was a writer and so he added, as if to make up for saying he was a writer, “I’m fascinated by the discoveries at Igbo-Ukwu. The bronze castings.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It’s not that good writers never hedge their claims. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Do people other than professional writers care, though? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z I told people that I was “trying to be a writer.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z But what did the writer mean when he warned about the dog days of August? In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Another is a confusion of the writer’s subject matter with his line of work. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I recall a television interview I once saw with scholar and writer Joseph Campbell. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I had left Howard without a degree and was living on the impoverished wages of a freelance writer. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z It is a sentiment he first heard from Herr Thiessen, but he knows it is properly attributed to another writer, though at the moment he cannot recall who, exactly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Plaid-clad tech writers get their revenge on the jocks who kicked sand in their faces and the girls who turned them down for dates. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He and Prokofiev were both mercifully spared the treatment accorded writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose criticisms of Soviet authority in his books and public statements landed him in a Siberian prison camp. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And Carmel, begun by starveling writers and unwanted painters, is now a community of the well-to-do and the retired. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood in awe as Mitra casually greeted him and told him how cool it was to hear a writer interpret his own words aloud. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z It was too embarrassing—barber’s sons, if they hustled, maybe got to be IBM salesmen, but writers? The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z He lay and watched his birthday tick nearer, wondering if the Dursleys would remember at all, wondering where the letter writer was now. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z “Turf writers and dockers swear by Tom Smith,” moaned a reporter, “and very often they just swear.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And the old horror of being a professional writer, and the usual stench of words that goes with it, is beginning to drive me out of my seat. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z But most writers said, and certainly with better reason, that it was the wickedness of Tantalus which doomed his descendants. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Well known as a writer, scientist, and publisher of the Pennsylvania Gazette, he had moved to London in 1757 to lobby, first for Pennsylvania and later for Massachusetts and Georgia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She thought he was a talented writer and had encouraged him to submit a twenty-four-line poem called “Summer Storm” to a statewide poetry competition. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Letter writers explained that they recognized the H. G. Wells story and Orson Welles’s voice as Professor Pierson. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The writers collected them, leaving the spaces for Horse of the Year blank. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But I am hoping Clem knows more about the writers upstairs in the pictures. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z Will the reader please take into consideration that this story was written before the writer’s fury had cooled? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z But since it was past midnight, the kitchen was closed, so the trio repaired instead to an all-night local eatery on Sixth Avenue, the Waldorf Cafeteria—a Greenwich Village hangout for artists, writers, and roustabouts. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Daniel was two grades above me and a real computer geek; he even had a CD writer at home, back when nobody had CD writers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z She liked to read this writer named Toni Morrison. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z I’m forty-three years old, and a writer now, and even still, right here, I keep dreaming Linda alive. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A language has plenty of room for multiple meanings, including the ones that good writers hope to preserve. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The individual creators of this property— writers, musicians, artists—can and will find alternative means of generating income, they’re convinced. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Different pens, different handwriting, conversations between some writers, arrows to longer paragraphs. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The key value that took the place of credulous piety was politeness, which was the great preoccupation of writers in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Paul Farmer, the renowned physician who has spent his life trying to cure the world's sickest and poorest people, once quoted me something that the writer Thomas Merton said: We are bodies of broken bones. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was Euripides, this Greek writer from the fifth century BC. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The writer must work to keep up the impression that his prose is a window onto the scene rather than just a mess of words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Davis and Daisy were chatting back and forth about the dehumanization of Clone troopers, and Mychal jumped in to explain that Daisy was actually kind of a famous writer of Star Wars fan fiction. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Dennis Brutus, another Coloured political activist, was a poet and writer from Port Elizabeth imprisoned for violating his bans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We were hostile toward our environment and we did not know how other American writers had met such problems. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z More often, the context makes it clear which affirmative statement was plausible in the first place, and hence which one the writer is going to the trouble of denying. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I hate Morris Sampson because he is a somewhat famous mystery writer who wrote a roman & clef, a novel that is obviously based on true events and real people. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Joyce became a successful writer and a family therapist. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Martin Gardner, the mathematics writer, illustrates the distinction between general and specific occurrences by means of a spinner with the twenty-six letters of the alphabet on it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Father wants me to start reading books by Hebbel and other well-known German writers. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Biographers of great authors always try to track down the books their subjects read when they were young, because they know these sources hold the key to their development as writers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The active parties are the writer and the reader, who are taking in the spectacle together, and the writer can refer to them with the good old pronoun we. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Talent alone would have gotten me nowhere without Daniel giving me the CD writer. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Alex Haley and I had discussed the possibility of my writing his autobiography to acknowledge our literary circle, our family of writers—my father to him and him to me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Several letter writers based their idea on the fact that cold air sinks. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I would like to impress this on the magazine writer who described some body’s walls as “hanged with handsome black-and-white photographs.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I know she was a writer for her high school’s newspaper. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A writer should revise in response to a comment when it comes from more than one reader or when it makes sense to the writer herself. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Fluent writers have these constructions at their fingertips to simultaneously control the content of a sentence and the sequencing of its words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He turns around and hollers into the house, “Dad! The writers here. ” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I could only think of him as the best writer in the school. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The word “writer” was enough to make a black Chicago Communist feel that the man to whom the word applied had gone wrong. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z At the age of eighteen, propelled by his admiration for the Beat Generation of writers, he moved out of his parents’ house and into the city itself. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Later, experts study the best speakers and writers in order to discover how they use language. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z He was vaguely familiar: Racking his brains, Harry suddenly realized that this was Elphias Doge, member of the Order of the Phoenix and the writer of Dumbledore’s obituary. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z But there is no compelling evidence for telepathy, and the communication of such information remains the task of artists and writers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or just find a white writer. White writers can be blunt about race and get all activist because their anger isn’t threatening,” Grace said. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We looked at a version of this principle when we saw that to help the reader keep track of a single entity across multiple mentions, a writer should not flip-flop between unnecessary synonyms. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “You could be a professional writer someday,” Momma continues, sounding just like Miss Saunders. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z I remember none in the George Bruce Branch who might have recommended any of these writers to me. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z These and other letter writers considered the program simply enjoyable entertainment. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z This raises the question of how a careful writer can distinguish a legitimate rule of usage from a grandmother’s tale. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z An English writer, Ronald Clark, finally took the job, but he found it hard to write about a man with so many secrets. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Perhaps he was not a true writer after all. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I fall asleep once as well, no disrespect to the writers. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z I had bought more film and wanted to take photos of the room doors where the writers had lived. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z This is the elusive “ear” of a skilled writer—the tacit sense of style which every honest stylebook, echoing Wilde, confesses cannot be explicitly taught. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A writer, an English teacher, and a beekeeper. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Jay Cee was going to lunch that noon with two famous writers, a man and a lady. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Oh. I’m gonna be a writer,” Benton said for the first time ever. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z “It appeared that Bill Hale’s lawyers—just as his friends predicted—had clipped the government’s tail feathers good,” one writer observed. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Always, as I wrote, I was both reader and writer, both the con- ceiver of the action and the appreciator of it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “As a matter of fact I do. I was planning on being a writer and an English teacher in my spare time.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re a good writer,” Momma says, setting the papers down gently. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z If I had pos-i-tive-ly decided to be a writer and at that moment had picked up a pencil to get started, I’d of put it down. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z The resort of a weak writer, like one and the same and any and all. easier said than done. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “It must be cool to have a dad who’s a famous writer, and to know that parts of you are in actual books,” she said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z Weak writers like to use scientific-sounding words to lend authority to limp sentences. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They are symptoms of absent-mindedness in a writer who has forgotten that he should be staging an event for the reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z WITNESS: He did not reply to the writer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was compiled during the depression by the best writers in America, who were, if that is possible, more depressed than any other group while maintaining their inalienable instinct for eating. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z They had marched, long-haired and ferocious, an ancient writer tells us, “sword in hand, against rivers in flood or against the storm-tossed ocean.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When Guiteau attacked, editorial writers and others called for full-time protection of the president. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Dear Diary, For the past month, we have been studying different American writers like Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Tho- reau. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Many preferred senses stand their ground over long stretches of time despite constant battering by careless writers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z "What? No no no. I'm the director. I'm the writer, producer, director, assistant-costume designer, and casting director." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z “And the writer also threatened to choke me to death.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t you need to go to college to be a writer?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Now, that writer understood the gift of punctuation! Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He was not only a brilliant writer, but was so committed to communism that he lived in a manner no different from an African. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bod, in the sack, was uncomfortable, being painfully slammed against the famous writer Victor Hugo’s back and occasionally banged on the ground. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Another night, we dined with Pérez at a restaurant rumored to have been one of Ernest Hemingway’s favorites when the American writer lived in Cuba. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The writer might send the letter by one rider going by one route while another rider carried the mask on another route. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Her story is told in full only by the late writers Ovid and Apollodorus, but it is an old tale. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The idea of wormholes between different regions of space-time was not an invention of science fiction writers but came from a very respectable source. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the congress adjourned, it was decided that another congress of American writers would be called in New York the following summer, 1935. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Every writer faces the challenge of finding a superlative in the English word-hoard that has not been inflated by hyperbole and overuse. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Dad talked my mom into naming her after one of his favorite writers, some weird old bird who’s buried out west in the middle of a desert. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Had she been hanging on to her dream of being a writer, but only barely hanging on, and something made her let go? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z My struggle as a writer was a lot like my life, I figured. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z And as a writer now, I want to save Linda’s life. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Some writers requested a personal update on his condition. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z For a writer, there’s nothing more humbling than to be at a loss for words. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He gained his reputation as an effective writer against British encroachments but was a reclusive nonpresence in debates. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “I love my English class. Mr. Ingman says I’m a good writer.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Jesse knew me as a writer for Rolling Stone, Wired, and Hotwired, the former website of the Wired empire, and that seemed to be enough. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad took over the room with the stove, and it became a combined living room, master bedroom, art studio, and writer’s study. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Tom, who believed that a lawman could usually “avoid killing if you didn’t lose your head,” later told a writer that he had heated discussions with this Ranger. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Later, a writer quoted her saying, “My husband is a good man, a kind man. He wouldn’t have done anything like that. And he wouldn’t hurt anyone else, and he wouldn’t ever hurt me.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “But he can be whatever he wants. Lynn is going to be either a rocket scientist or a famous writer.” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z But how to do justice to the changes that had made her into a real writer at last, and to her chaotic swarm of impressions, and to the disgust and fascination she felt? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Windy writers like to dialogue, or to have a dialogue. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z She opened it and read: “I wish to make a protest against the methods you are adopting in annoying the President,” the letter writer said. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The original writers show Tania scoring kill after kill as she guns down German planes and drops her bombs on German troops. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Writers’ has a possessive sense: it implies that the workshop belongs to the writers who attend. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, those writers would likely have been thinking of Indians without him—the essayist Montaigne had noted the same antiauthoritarian attitudes a century earlier. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I didn’t tell him that I was a writer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z But it’s better to keep in mind the guiding metaphor of classic style: a writer, in conversation with a reader, directs the reader’s gaze to something in the world. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Ebright had his second consecutive IRA title, revenge for his loss on Lake Washington, and validation for the conclusion that the Associated Press writer had come to back in April. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Some writers sense a subtle distinction in the focus of attention. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Exactly. So I gave her a call and told her a special writer has a special idea for our room.” Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The writer went on to describe, in precise terms that only a spy would understand, procedures for a dead drop in Moscow. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Even writers who prize clarity don’t do this. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The advice to omit needless words should not be confused with the puritanical edict that all writers must pare every sentence down to the shortest, leanest, most abstemious version possible. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The moral for a writer is obvious: a reader must know the topic of a text in order to understand it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Horatio Alger was the greatest writer in the world. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z But the starting point for becoming a good writer is to be a good reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Can you get the writers to rework this warehouse scene? Give it to Nala and Scruffy instead of Duke?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “You got to go away. My brothers say I should write my own book. But I ain’t a writer. I’m sorry.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She was talking about a panel she had done the week before, at a writers’ festival. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Some writers can’t make a point without poking you in the ribs with it. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the press car, a hush had gradually fallen over the Washington contingent of writers and coaches as they had taken in just how far behind the Husky Clipper was. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Mrs. Du Bois, a writer, was the Director of Ghanaian television, which was planned for educational purposes. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The French writer Emile Zola, for example, thought that the Industrial Age had brought to working people untold misery and cruelty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z You can’t have this kind of shared understanding if writer and reader are in an adversary relationship. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The few articles I had read dealing with writers spoke about how they had conceived their ideas, or what they were currently writing, never about money. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The writer has to force himself to work. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z "How'd you do in English? I'll show you the door in short order if you flunked English, you little ace composition writer." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z No other writer tells the story in full. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been working as a feature writer at the Boston Globe, a great job for a twenty-four-year-old reporter. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I write sometimes—mostly about stuff that happens to me, and occasionally different ways the world might end—but I’m not a writer.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The amount of abstraction that a writer can get away with depends on the expertise of her readership. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I got faster CD writers, multiple CD writers. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z An Hispanic-American writer tells me, ‘I will never give up my family language; I would as soon give up my soul.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally he said, “Bad writers don’t practice, Stella. It’s the good ones who care enough to try, who worry about getting the words just right. You are probably better than you think.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Chances are, if something you’re reading doesn’t make sense, it’s not your fault—it’s the writer’s. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was serendipitous when writer Thomas Keneally walked into the luggage store that the Pages owned in Beverly Hills and became fascinated by the story Mr. Page told him. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Before I went into the army I had thought about being a writer. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Many writers have imagined republics and principalities that have never been seen nor known to exist in reality. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes a writer should cleave an intimidating block of print with a paragraph break just to give the reader’s eyes a place to alight and rest. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It convened in the summer of 1934 with left-wing writers attending from all states. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t know why I was supposed to write everything, but I could tell she liked thinking I was a writer, so I decided to be one. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Single-handedly, while keeping my mother abreast of all updates, he continued to commission writers again and again. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Reporters would telephone in stories to writers wearing headphones, and the writers would stencil the stories on mimeograph sheets. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z How does a writer manage to turn out such tortuous syntax? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The writer lived in the same building as her lover. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Self-conscious writers are also apt to whinge about how what they’re about to do is so terribly difficult and complicated and controversial: What are intractable conflicts? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z At the Herald, Boston’s second-largest newspaper, its chief editorial writer was preparing what hundreds of thousands would read the next morning. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z After that I never told anyone I wanted to be a philosopher again, or even a writer. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, even if a dangler is in no danger of being misinterpreted, enough readers have trained themselves to spot danglers that a writer who leaves it incurs the risk of being judged as slovenly. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He was a second-generation Harvard man, who became a writer only after losing his Unitarian ministry because of allegations of sexual misconduct. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z And in a stroke of genius, Kevin holds up lines of his poems on large white cards as he speaks about the writer’s life. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Typical Connectives and, before, then after, once, while, when The language gives writers a second way of controlling the order in which two events are mentioned. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The form in which thoughts occur to a writer is rarely the same as the form in which they can be absorbed by a reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z You’ve known for a long time that my greatest wish is to be a journalist, and later on, a famous writer. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The rules of standard English are not legislated by a tribunal of lexicographers but emerge as an implicit consensus within a virtual community of writers, readers, and editors. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It is given by many writers, always in substantially the same form. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A good spy is but the secret writer of all moments imminent. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Being primarily interested in Left Front, I sided in simple loyalty with the writers. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “A writer? For what? You know they don’t make any money, right? You want to be poor your whole life?” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t even know if I’m a writer.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Slicing away the layers of familiar abstraction and showing the reader who did what to whom is a never-ending challenge for a writer. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The writer of the slogan We get the job done, not make excuses presumably did not anticipate how customers would wince at the bad coordination. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Across the country, turf writers began agitating for the match. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Killjoy style manuals tell writers to avoid alliteration, but good prose is enlivened with moments of poetry, like this line with its pleasing meter and its impish pairing of marital and medical. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When Nigro introduced Bobby to writer Murray Shumach of The New York Times, the boy shied away and just looked down at his shoes. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In the days that followed, I read other animal rights thinkers: writers like Tom Regan, James Rachels, Joy Williams, and Matthew Scully. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z From the little he knows about Russian writers, it dismays him that his parents chose the weirdest namesake. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The writer, and that was what I was becoming, must be wary of every Dream and every nation, even his own nation. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I told her my mom is a writer too, and I saw them talking together later. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z But knowing the hallmarks of classic style will make anyone a better writer, and it is the strongest cure I know for the disease that enfeebles academic, bureaucratic, corporate, legal, and official prose. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Ruth had an outgoing personality and was a gifted writer. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I must have tinkered too much wondering how my invisible grandmother, illiterate and dependent on letter writers, could give us candy free. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Buz told me you were a writer,” said the voice that I thought had gone away. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z This young writer assures me that she will be truthful and certifiable in giving the honest-to-goodness scoop each and every week. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The writer of the essay that troubled him was Lancy Davis. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z It’s not that ain’t is used as a standard contraction for negated forms of be, have, and do; no writer is that oblivious. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Do careful writers who inadvertently flout the rule agree, when the breach is pointed out, that something has gone wrong? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I don’t remember anything about the days before I was a ghoul,” said the famous writer Victor Hugo. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The long distance between a filler and a gap can be hazardous to writer and reader alike. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In classic prose the writer is directing the gaze of the reader to something in the world she can see for herself. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z An editor I knew at The New York Times once received a gift from a writer friend. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Even the writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau said so. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z This leaves plenty of leeway for judgment, depending on whether the writer wishes to emphasize the continuing truth of some idea that was bruited in the past. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “She is only a world-famous writer who wrote three Pulitzer Prize books about the deciduous trees of South Carolina.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Those writers had been worse off than I was now, and still they survived to write about it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I tell you this: This writer will be there and with him everyone I know. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z These writers are incurious about the logic and history of the English language and the ways in which it has been used by its exemplary stylists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I seem to have had a fortunate childhood for a writer. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z In reality, previews that read like a scrunched-up table of contents are there to help the writer, not the reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Or, to put it more positively, when a writer wants to negate an unfamiliar proposition, she should unveil the negation in two stages: 1. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I stated that I favored a policy that allowed for the development of writers and artists. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In classic style, the writer credits the reader with enough intelligence to realize that many concepts aren’t easy to define and that many controversies aren’t easy to resolve. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I adore the history of the arts, especially when it concerns writers, poets and painters; musicians may come later. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Why did you use a pen name? I mean, Quill is a perfect writer name,” Seven said, still in awe. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z And in a whisper I tell her, “I want to be an artist and a writer. But don’t tell Papi. He wants me to be a secretary when I grow up.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I’d overhear the reporters at The Welch Daily News make jokes to one another about the highfalutin writers who worked at those papers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Someone once said that all writers should read into their weaknesses. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The writer Ivan Turgenev described him as an intelligent, queer, and sickly creature. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z War Admiral was the toast of the newsmen; every single Daily Racing Form handicap- per had picked him to win, as had some 95 percent of the other writers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Good writers often use very long sentences, and they garnish them with words that are, strictly speaking, needless. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Because he gives every good writer something to struggle with and try to work out by writing it down. That’s genius.” Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Milton wasn’t the only writer in history to give Satan the rhetorical chops he deserves. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z "No! I'm not a mass murderer, I’m a writer! I'm sure I can think of some less bloodthirsty ending." Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “Two years ago I could walk the streets and pass people and they never bothered to speak with me,” she told the magazine writer. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z It was popular in classical days, and several writers told it in whole or part. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z A New York Communist writer summed up the history of the clubs and made a motion for their dissolution. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Emma and Charles’s first grandchild, Bernard, grew up to be a lawyer and a famous golf writer. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Careful writers pick up the nuances of words by focusing on their makeup and their contexts over the course of tens of thousands of hours of reading. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Too many readers are intimidated and humbled by what they can’t understand, and in some cases that’s precisely the effect the writer is after. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Any adversary who is unscrupulous enough to give the least charitable reading to an unhedged statement will find an opening to attack the writer in a thicket of hedged ones anyway. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He used to be just a regular writer, when he was home. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Not Dallas, not Memphis—New York City, where writers are supposed to live. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Such letters had an extra advantage: The writer could include false information in case Americans intercepted the letter. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In some passages I had the strong feeling that the writer was directing her disapproval at me, which is why I finally want to bare my soul to you and defend myself against this attack. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z We planned to petition the school to have a writers’ club. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z These writers all ask: Is it all right to allow animals to suffer just because they are animals? The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Writers is merely a descriptive adjective: it tells you what kind of workshop this is—one for writers. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The Chicago admissions office would not be looking for input from the press office or, for that matter, from a magazine writer. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z H. G. Wells in The Time Machine explored these possibilities as have countless other writers of science fiction. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Gawaine had hardly been the sort of person you thought of as a writer. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The writers forget that the few seconds they add to their own lives come at the cost of many minutes stolen from the lives of their readers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I couldn’t understand why the writer would spend an entire book on such a mean, selfish ogre, or why my sixth-grade teacher thought it was a great book. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z And he said that all the great writers used to wear suits all the time. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z She was bringing in outside writers for the first time and taking on broader issues of interest to young women. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I wanted to do something wonderfully romantic, to fulfill my idea of what I thought a writer should be like. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Like the writers of Proverbs the authors seem old; they are men of experience who have meditated on human affairs. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z My announcement attracts so little attention that I have to repeat it: “Will you listen to me? I’m a writer and I’m going to write a book about this place. ” Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She was always quoting famous Black writers and activists. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z These relations may be conveyed without even using a connective word: all the writer has to do is write the statements using parallel syntax and vary only the words that indicate the difference. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I remember Allie once asked him wasn't it sort of good that he was in the war because he was a writer and it gave him a lot to write about and all. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. I been told I’m a pretty good writer.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I earned a master’s degree in journalism and took the first job offered, as a sports writer. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She felt filled, at least for that moment, with the easy elegance of the writer in her dream. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The writer’s challenge is to come up with a scheme to order these units of text—to turn a dangly mobile into a rigid tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I, an American writer, writing about America, was working from memory, and the memory is at best a faulty, warpy reservoir. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z My personal dread derived from the obvious fact that it’s not only the software writers and computer geeks who get empowered to collaborate on work in a flat world. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Jackie was no sycophant or whipping boy, as he’s been described by other writers. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Clearly, none of those writers have met me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z “And he’s the best writer, too,” Gabriel said to me. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z A local sports- writer who watched them work out that month observed that “it rained and rained and rained. Then it rained and rained and rained.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A devoted and talented writer with an eye for detail, her secret diary, which she began at fourteen, detailed her observations and encounters with the political, military, and diplomatic elite. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But I am pleased as punch to announce that I will be passing the torch to an up-and-coming writer who, according to Sister Redempta, has an eye for the interesting and a nose for news. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Mr. Larson said, “An editorial writer has only got a little bit of space, so every word has to be chosen for power.” The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z Coherence begins with the writer and reader being clear about the topic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z My entire identity as a writer was in that book. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z And if any of the writers assembled on the ramp that day harbored any doubt that Ky Ebright was taking the Washington threat seriously, those doubts were put to rest directly. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I’ve always had this theory that God is a sitcom writer who loves to put me in ridiculous situations. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Inside the writer’s brain, the links between ideas are kept straight by the neural code that makes memory and reasoning possible. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Fleeing the Nazi conquest of Europe, the writer Vladimir Nabokov and his family took a ship to the United States in the spring of 1940. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The solution, in the words of one writer, was "a fit of intelligence lunacy." Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Most writers cannot afford focus groups or A/B testing, but they can ask a roommate or colleague or family member to read what they wrote and comment on it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z But a skilled writer can enliven and sometimes electrify her prose with the judicious insertion of a surprising word. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It would be the writer’s third script for The Mercury Theatre on the Air, and it would alter his life. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The challenge to the writer is to use those resources so that the reader can graft the information in a series of sentences into his web of knowledge without getting tangled up in either. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I found a book at our camp. I was so sad and angry for the writer.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I am thinking if I can hold on to the memory of this song get home and write it down, then it will happen, I'll be a writer. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z This vignette shows that even belonging to the same professional club as a writer is no protection against her curse of knowledge. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In any case, she was discovering, as had many writers before her, that not all recognition is helpful. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “I felt that the ground was being cut from under the feet of the party’s best writers.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Generally speaking, writers avoid using the word genocide in history and textbooks about North America and the United States. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z As soon as the Federalists launched their prosecutions of Republican editors and writers under the Sedition Act—a total of eighteen indictments were filed—it became clear that the prosecutions were generally regarded as persecutions. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And the same thought went through all their minds, josh Billings was a great man, a great writer. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Bran decided that if someone dictates a letter that someone else writes or types, the writer is the one who puts the words together. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d rather go to a machine which knows me by some code word but on whose operating programs a team of software writers has painstakingly worked for months. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t think there was a writer in the whole world who could have done better. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He met the writer of signs whose chalked message he had seen the past November. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I had sacrificed energy to recruit writers who subscribed to a revolutionary point of view, and now my feelings fought against the waste and meaninglessness to which my efforts were being reduced. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He read and reread the works of Stephen Potter—the English writer who coined the terms one-upmanship and gamesmanship—not as social satire but as a manual of practical stratagems. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In classic style the writer has worked hard to find something worth showing and the perfect vantage point from which to see it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Still, I suppose that is young for a great writer. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z When Sophie read some of them, she said, ‘These are very good. I think perhaps one day you could become a real writer.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was by a rather popular writer named Mr. Dickens, who lived in London and published stories in the magazines. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z When I finished all the Verne books in the library, I became the first in line for any book that arrived written by modern science-fiction writers such as Heinlein, Asimov, van Vogt, Clarke, and Bradbury. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A natural writer, he quickly grasped the difference between e-mail chat and the more formal and grammatical prose the school wanted, and labored over his essay. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Back on the ground, we stroll along the quays bordering the Seine, where so many writers walked for centuries before penning their masterpieces. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The writers of books on insect behavior generally take pains, in their prefaces, to caution that insects are like creatures from another planet, that their behavior is absolutely foreign, totally unhuman, unearthly, almost unbiological. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Inexperienced writers tend to be closer to academics than to journalists and use too few paragraph breaks rather than too many. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A skilled writer can interleave multiple story lines, or deliberately manipulate suspense and surprise, or engage the reader with a chain of associations, each topic shunting the reader to the next. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I’m a writer. I like doing things alone.” The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z Dad once came to school to do a writer’s workshop with us in English class. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z But, and that’s a big question, will I ever be able to write something great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer? The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z One is to provide grounds for confidence that the writer has a history of reading edited English and has given it his full attention. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He visited Bobby in the jail and gave him a copy of The Apostle of Common Sense, a book about the writer G. K. Chesterton, which covered various matters of religion and culture. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Around the year 80 A.D., a great Greek writer, Plutarch, received news, when he was far from home, that a little daughter of his had died—a child of most gentle nature, he says. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bill is a writer but unlike the rest of us, he has oodles of money.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z His father, Guy Waterman, is a musician and freelance writer who, among other claims to modest fame, authored speeches for presidents, ex-presidents, and other prominent Washington politicians. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Since there are serious consequences to misinterpreting these statements as absolute laws, a responsible writer should insert a qualifier like on average or all things being equal, together with a slightly or somewhat. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Ain’t nothing to me. I just figured you to have more imagination than that, you being a writer and all.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z “He’s a famous author, right? How come they’re projecting a statue of a modern writer like Pseudonymous Bosch but not the author who created a classic like Sherlock Holmes?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “I want to be a writer,” I said. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Perhaps they could tell that whoever wrote it would be a writer someday and that eventually the poem would be worth more than the house. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The last two allow a writer an additional lever of control over what the reader will treat as given and what she will treat as new. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z You’ll never go wrong by following the rule, but keep in mind that many respected writers ignore it, using one another when referring to a pair. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Delilah will be the writer who reports the story. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It refers to a situation that the writer is uncertain about, and it invites the reader to draw inferences or make predictions about that situation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He asked me what kind of work I did and I told him I was a writer. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I want to be a writer,” I finally say. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A dull writer, but less dull than usual in this tale. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Some day, Inshallah, you will be a great writer, he had said once, and people all over the world will read your stories. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Many of the commonest usage errors are the result of writers thinking logically when they should be mindlessly conforming to convention. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He’d yell hi, then clack away for a few minutes, while I took out my notebook and strolled through the place, playing writer and cataloguing the apartment’s meager contents. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Minerva always says writing gets things off her chest and she feels better, but I’m no writer, like she is. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Jack gestured to the hallway lined with painted portraits of famous San Francisco writers wearing somber expressions and silly costumes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z He is a very pedestrian writer and Ovid is far from that. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Several writers had provided stories for the ambitious outline, and William Faulkner had the tough job of smoothing out its clunky transitions and pulling the whole thing together. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z He was not only a friend of King Louis XVI but also an inventor and a writer. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Whatever Palmer learned, he fed back to the show’s producers and writers, so they could fine-tune the material accordingly. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This may be grounds for suspicion by the reader and a prod to self-improvement for the writer, but it is not a failure of consistency or logic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Careful writers and discerning readers delight in the profusion of words in the English lexicon, no two of which are exact synonyms. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I feel a special kinship with Gogol,” Ashoke says, “more than with any other writer. Do you know why?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Plus, there was the slim possibility it would make me a better writer. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I’ll never be able to tell Mother I want to be a writer. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Excluding certain textbook authors, only a handful of mathematics writers have a lay audience of more than a thousand. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z And just before the heat wave, a rising young British writer had published a scalding essay on Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The gun quickly acquired the nickname “Krupp’s Baby,” although one writer preferred to think of it as Krupp’s “pet monster.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As we shall see, many prescriptive rules originated for screwball reasons, impede clear and graceful prose, and have been flouted by the best writers for centuries. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Little girl, you’ll be a story writer when you grow up.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Inexperienced writers often think they’re doing the reader a favor by guiding her through the rest of the text with a detailed preview. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The performances were sacred; the spectators, too, along with the writers and the performers, were engaged in an act of worship. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, in case she became a famous writer, Lynn practiced writing little stories in her diary: Once upon a time a funny witch cast a spell on all the world’s creatures. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z It seemed strange to announce Look at me, I’m writing! but then again, writers were quite strange. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I said I hadn’t been employed at all, that I’d only been out of college a year but that I liked to think of myself as a professional short-story writer. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The next four constructions allow a writer to shift a phrase rightward when it is too heavy or too newsworthy to be taking up space in the middle of a sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When a sentence gets complicated, though, even a literate writer can lose track of how each branch in a coordination harmonizes with the rest of the tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I hope you realize how proud I am of you? Please say you won’t love me less when you’ve grown up and become an artist and a writer.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Gay was a writer who was just finishing her eighth book, and Philip made films. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “A writer is what I want, not an interpreter.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The group of writers that centered about Left Front resented the leadership of the painters. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Globe writer Tom Oliphant hated to leave town in the midst of such a major story. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z A person is a fool to become a writer. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, writers will do themselves a favor, and increase the amount of pleasure in the world, if they use a word in the senses that are accepted by literate readers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When asked what I did, I told them I was a writer, touring the South to make a study of conditions. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She had seen only the characters who emerged from the words to meet her, never the writer who had made them up. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Some of the “New Women” writers will some day start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z And as we shall soon see, wording should never be varied when a writer is comparing or contrasting two things. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Prince Faisal had read Egyptian writers’ articles about the American “Black Muslims.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But when the pronoun is buried inside a coordination phrase, writers are apt to lose sight of the governor and give the pronoun a different case. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I want to be a writer. I want to write books.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “I said I don’t—” “We can tell him the L & J Fund is intended to subsidize writers and actors if you want.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Of the Roman writers, Virgil stands far ahead. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The 33rd President of the United States handed Bod over to the famous writer Victor Hugo, who threw the boy into his sack and put it over his shoulder. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Many of the writers on the project were members of the Communist party and they kept their revolutionary vows that restrained them from speaking to “traitors of the working class.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z There were probably more students who needed the company of other writers, as well. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The next time they tried, the politicians and editorial writers worried, the Russians might hit it and then what kind of world would we live in? October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z To compose a passage with this orderly structure, a writer must organize the content she hopes to convey into a neat hierarchy. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He recognized her talent and tried to convince the studio to hire her as a writer instead. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z When it comes to putting the units into a left-to-right order, the rules of English syntax leave writers with only a few possibilities. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Parimutuel racing was spanking new in California and many other places, so there were few established racing writers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Too many writers back into what they have to say. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A good writer can express an extremely complicated idea clearly and make the job look effortless. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Was it out of politeness that this writer left off strokes the way a Chinese has to write her own name small and crooked? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, she broke down and named the writer of the coded letter: Dr. Benjamin Church. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But the most likely case is that interstellar communication will be a kind of palimpsest, like the palimpsests of ancient writers short of papyrus or stone who superimposed their messages on top of preexisting messages. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d discovered that the way the sun shines in the fall is exactly like writers describe it in books. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Like the menu of constructions, the menu of verbs can give a writer several options on where to place a given, new, light, or heavy phrase. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z However, all writers about them, from Romans to modern zookeepers, decry their irascible temper and their nasty habit of biting people. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So every time a writer adds a word to a sentence, he is imposing not one but two cognitive demands on the reader: understanding the word, and fitting it into the tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “We’ll kill it. You’ll be glad you took a vacation. I’m strong on superheroes, spy movies, YouTubers, fitness, money, makeup, and Victorian writers. What about you?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z It is something that some writers reach for their entire careers and never attain. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The final stop on the field trip, a short distance by bus from the poet’s house, is a graveyard where the writer lies buried. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I told him I was a writer, touring the Deep South to study living conditions, civil rights, etc., but I did not tell him I would do this as a Negro. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “The great American writer who shot himself last summer with a loaded rifle!” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on ice: a little kid, a twenty-three-year- old infantry sergeant, a middle-aged writer knowing guilt and sorrow. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The bit about the ghost trying to look at itself in the river of death is a subtle touch which is quite characteristic of him and quite unlike any Greek writer. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z My brother D.B.'s a writer and all, and my brother Allie, the one that died, that I told you about, was a wizard. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z She said Ms. Angelou is one of the greatest American writers. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Painters and writers were showing up in droves. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people—science fiction writers and artists, for instance—have speculated on what other beings might be like. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There are many allusions to him in prose writers as well as poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The list could go on—the Yankee and the Cavalier, the orator and the writer, the bulldog and the greyhound. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The way I saw it, if my students were willing to pretend I was a teacher, the least I could do was return the favor and pretend that they were writers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “I’m supposed to be a writer from New York,” he said finally. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In St. Louis he wrote to her and courted her and in the process resolved to make more of himself as a writer. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Only a writer could save us now, I thought. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Obviously writers cannot avoid abbreviations and technical terms altogether. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Of course, responsible writers have to deal with counterarguments and counterevidence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I am to be a clean writer, of the most reasonable eye, and present the subject in question like some sentient machine of transcription. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I can still hear that “writers” part echoing in my head. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z The writer said she deeply regretted any inconvenience or confusion this change of plans might cause the school. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Although neophyte writers may repeat a simple sentence structure to the point of inanity, most writers go to the opposite extreme and vary their syntax capriciously. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z None of my acquaintances and no one in my family wrote, and yet I have become a professional writer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Several nights later she again attended a party held by the hard-drinking news writers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z At thirteen I had never read a book by a Negro writer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z For the radio project, Houseman added writer and editor to his duties. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I am lucky to be a writer, to have opportunities to use my words to reach others. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “The news,” a Tribune writer observed, “was almost incredible.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “That was cool. I want to be a writer, too. And a ballet dancer. I’m going to write stories and make ballets about them.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Perhaps she was right; perhaps I would never be a writer; but I did not want her to say so. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The first essay is on nature, by a writer I've never heard of who spends pages describing a lake. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But come to think of it, I don’t think any teacher has ever mentioned the race of a writer. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z A writer, like a cinematographer, manipulates the viewer’s perspective on an ongoing story, with the verbal equivalent of camera angles and quick cuts. the marital, the medical, and sometimes both at once. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z They’re singers and actors and writers and dancers and directors and poets. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z What the angry letter writers didn't know, however, was that the ungulate McCandless shot was exactly what he’d said it was. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Shephard says all writers have more than one notebook,” I tell her. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The second writer on the list is sometimes placed in the ninth century, sometimes in the eighth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z By then I’d read Chancellor Williams, J. A. Rogers, and John Jackson—writers central to the canon of our new noble history. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He has won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award, among other honors, for his novel Native Speaker, and was selected by the New Yorker as one of the twenty best American writers under forty. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Had they grown up under different circumstances, they might have thought about becoming economists or writers. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The curse of knowledge hides them from the writer, who therefore must put some effort into spotting and extirpating them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One writer has estimated that Indians developed three-fifths of the crops now in cultivation, most of them in Mesoamerica. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Welles and writer Herman Mankiewicz shared the award for Best Original Screenplay. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z In our world, writers are tortured and killed if they are men. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Luther, as well as being a theologian, scholar, writer and preacher, was a composer. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z When we moved to New York, she worked multiple jobs, from a freelance writer for magazines and television to a furrier’s assistant—whatever she could do to help cover her growing expenses. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z They belong to a family of “inappropriate shifts” in which the writer fails to stay put at a single vantage point but vanishes from one and pops up at another. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “She was a writer and a poet. She wrote a poem that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty that says, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Much advice on writing has the tone of moral counsel, as if being a good writer will make you a better person. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The coffee shop smells like pretentious writers who would hate the stuff I write. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z But even the best software isn’t smart enough to assign trees reliably, so writers cannot offload the task of minding the tree onto their word processors. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And each of us, this writer especially, will pray that the current Allied success at the Battle of Cantigny signals a speedy end to this war. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, what are the writers you revere most greatly?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z It is where I went from thinking about becoming a writer, to writing. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Clarence Dirks, a writer for the Post-Intelligencer, had already noticed the same thing. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Buffon’s observations found surprisingly eager support among other writers, especially those whose conclusions were not complicated by actual familiarity with the country. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z She's one of the best writers at Carver, and her queen's last speech got me choked up—and fired up. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When I pictured the idea of “writer” in my mind, pictures from my schoolbooks came to mind, and Hughes did not fit that picture. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She had expected the letter writer to be a guy with a wild beard and unruly hair, like those men who lived in the woods and didn’t use technology. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z When enough careful writers and speakers fail to do something that a pencil-and-paper analysis of syntax says they should, it may mean that it’s the pencil-and-paper analysis that is wrong, not the speakers and writers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Yes, we had a few writers, singers, educators, actors, actresses and so on, but few had attained the international stature of their American counterparts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z One very vocal opponent of the tide of ethnic imitation was the writer, civil rights activist and co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, W. E. B. Du Bois. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Years ago, in my earliest and pastiest days as a would-be writer, I once read a new story aloud to S. and Boo Boo. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z A classic writer counts on the common sense and ordinary charity of his readers, just as in everyday conversation we know when a speaker means “in general” or “all else being equal.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Early American writers, Henry James and Nathaniel Hawthorne, complained bitterly about the bleakness and flatness of the American scene. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z I bet the writer didn’t ask any Aztecs what they thought of Cortes. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Some editorial writers pointed out that gullible Americans were susceptible to propaganda such as the kind used in Germany. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The youthful writer addresses a stranger, the Other, with ‘Dear Diary’ and tries to give public expression to what is intensely, privately felt. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Each letter was formed with a wobbly hand, as though the writer didn’t know how to hold a pen. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Some writers think that simple, clear, straightforward language isn’t flashy enough, so they toss in complexities. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The assignment was: Many writers and filmmakers have used the classic story of Romeo and Juliet as the theme for their works. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Many of those who weren’t natural writers gave interviews instead, and allowed their memories to be collected and published. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “Amir is going to be a great writer,” Baba said. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z My fresh love of reading brought me to the transformative writers who have worked their magic on generations of readers. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z But it’s good advice only when a writer or an editor understands why it’s being offered. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “The writers were against the Klan, all right, but they had precious few inside facts about it.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I was still searching for the right words, and I was the writer in the room. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Every newspaper and magazine writer and microphone I got close to: “No! We are black people here in America. Our religion is Islam. We are properly called ‘Muslims’!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Who had ever, in all human history, offered to young writers an audience so vast? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z A good reader and skilled writer, Courtney easily masters her schoolwork, except when she is indifferent to it. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z At the age of eighteen, propelled by his admiration for the Beat Generation of writers, he moved out of his parents’ house and into the city itself. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But here, for starters, is Quintilian: “The whole art of oratory, as the most and greatest writers have taught, consists of five parts: invention, arrangement, style, memory, and delivery.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z But he was a writer, at least he was certain he was meant to be a writer, an artist, a creator. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Lynn planned to become either a rocket scientist or a famous writer. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The deletions are tempting to a writer because they tighten up a sentence’s rhythm and avoid the ugly sibilance of which. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z You may be inclined to agree with the writer Calvin Trillin when he wrote, “As far as I’m concerned, whom is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I'm named after one of my mom's writer heroes, but I think Grandma Rose likes it because it's French, and not Indian. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I’ve been lucky enough now in my life to meet all sorts of extraordinary and accomplished people—world leaders, inventors, musicians, astronauts, athletes, professors, entrepreneurs, artists and writers, pioneering doctors and researchers. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “The racists see before them something more than voting rights,” observed Elizabeth Hardwick, a New York writer who joined the march. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought you were going to be a writer.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I no longer feel it necessary to hang my head at parties and tell people that I am “trying to be a writer.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z From the first, I tried to read books about South Africa or by South African writers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The history writer says this is what Catherine, who is a wife of Henry the Eighth, says to Cardinal Wolsey, who is trying to have her head cut off. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “Jessamyn West said, ‘Writing is so difficult that writers, having had their hell on earth, will escape all punishment hereafter.’ All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The passive allows a writer to postpone the mention of a doer that is heavy, old news, or both. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Another major resource that English puts at a writer’s disposal is the choice of verb. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z These were not only Britons and Germans, but also Belgians, French, Italians, Swiss; they were diplomats and political persons of high rank; distinguished clergymen; retired military gentlemen; writers and thinkers. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z But if I were not a writer, I hope I would still be aware of how words can make a difference. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z He said, “And one of our worst needs is writers”—but he did not press me to answer. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z But no writer can leave the macroscopic organization of a text to chance. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A closely related problem that is also of concern to writers of science fiction is rapid interstellar or intergalactic travel. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z For the rest I have followed Apollodorus, a prose writer of the first or second century A.D. who is the only writer except Ovid to tell Hercules’ life in full. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The CD writer Daniel gave me was a lx CD writer, which meant it copied at the speed it played. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He had that rare quality in any writer—a distinctive voice. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “He is celebrated today as one of Russia’s most brilliant writers. But during his life he was understood by no one, least of all himself. One might say he typified the phrase ‘eccentric genius.’ The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Another writer tells us that punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z “Well, I’m not... I’m not quite that kind of writer.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “He said he was working on something for you but he wasn’t that good of a writer.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z They were, after all, two of the most accomplished letter writers of the era, men who had fashioned over long careers at the writing desk distinctive prose styles that expressed their different personalities perfectly. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We cast aside a great deal of material, some of it by writers of reputation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z An aspiring writer could be forgiven for thinking that learning to write is like negotiating an obstacle course in boot camp, with a sergeant barking at you for every errant footfall. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And if not a writer, I wasn't sure what I might do, but I certainly had no interest in becoming a criminal. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z These days, Dad spoke to me the same way Rocco quoted dead writers—into the air, as if it didn’t matter if anyone was listening at all. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z At the time a CD writer cost as much as the rest of the computer, nearly 2,000 rand. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z So in order to have any human interest in their stories, science fiction writers had to suppose that we would one day discover how to travel faster than light. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z But the curse of knowledge ensures that most writers will overestimate how standard a term has become and how wide the community is that has learned it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The letters were darker, as if the writer had been pressing down on the paper too hard. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The writer is entertained by what he writes; he believes none of it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Being an artist and a writer will seem crazy to him! Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z "My dear" was the secret signal to whoever the letter was addressed to that the writer had been caught. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Often a writer needs to steer the reader’s attention away from the agent of an action. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The writers then dispersed in search of the stories that would illuminate, sharpen, or possibly contradict, their working hypotheses. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z To be sure, surveys of typical errors in student papers show that inexperienced writers really do mix up adjectives and adverbs. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One heard from politicians and social activists and editorial writers. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The profusion of metaconcepts in professional writing—all those levels, issues, contexts, frameworks, and perspectives—also makes sense when you consider the personal history of chunking and functional fixity in the writers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The four of us were all varsity athletes—all bonded around Volpe—and we all became writers or editors. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I’m a decent reader and an okay writer. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z When weariness sets in, a writer’s ability to behold an entire branch of the tree can deteriorate. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z At Cuxhaven a motor launch flying Nazi flags pulled alongside the ship to take off German news writers and photographers who had boarded at Le Havre. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Like those other writers, I figured I'd have to wait until the pain subsided and left the words behind. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Despite the poverty, Sophiatown had a special character; for Africans, it was the Left Bank in Paris, Greenwich Village in New York, the home of writers, artists, doctors, and lawyers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Before becoming a fiction writer, H. G. Wells had taught science and published two biology textbooks. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Anna was also a good writer and a faithful correspondent. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But the writers I have in mind are the purists—also known as sticklers, pedants, peevers, snobs, snoots, nit- pickers, traditionalists, language police, usage nannies, grammar Nazis, and the Gotcha! The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The club decided upon a conference of all the left-wing writers in the Middle West. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Other writers say the cause of the dispute was the two daughters of the king of the country, Leucippus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The writer chose to emphasize the exclamation, not the question. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a tall, austerely pleasant man of about forty, a bachelor, and a writer by profession, being the author of several historical biographies. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The writer criticizes “today’s youth” from head to toe, though without dismissing them all as “hopeless cases.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z But more than anything else, as a writer, I was fascinated by the similarity of the emotional tensions of Bigger in America and Bigger in Nazi Germany and Bigger in old Russia. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Anne Frank’s book was a natural choice, but I was really excited to discover the book by the young Bosnian writer, who critics are hailing as a “modern-day Anne Frank.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Apollodorus, also a Greek, is, next to Ovid, the most voluminous ancient writer on mythology, but, unlike Ovid, he is very matter-of-fact and very dull. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know,” I explain to him, “the cards with all the writers and authors and that.” I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z The two were comfortable together, when Jesse stopped by to visit and to introduce this strange writer guy, but said very little. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Had she said I heard you write or I heard you’re a writer? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Writing is often clearer and more elegant when a writer pushes an only or a not next to the thing that it quantifies. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I met white writers who talked of their responses, who told me how whites reacted to this lurid American scene. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z For six weeks in Los Angeles during that turbulent summer, the American writer William Faulkner worked frantically to turn Battle Cry into a screenplay. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Good writers may have no explicit awareness of how these constructions and verb types work, and they certainly don’t know their names. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z With shows like “Roy,” in the late 1990s, the writers of the show attempted, for the first time, to link some of these pieces together with a common theme. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I also have started to write down stories and hope maybe I can be a writer too. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Which sort of makes sense when you stop to think that Lorraine is going to be a famous writer and I’m going to be a great actor. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z When I tell my family I want to be a writer, they smile and say, We see you in the backyard with your writing. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z When I polled some accomplished writers about which style manuals they had con- sulted during their apprenticeships, the most common answer I got was “none.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As I wrote I followed, almost unconsciously, many principles of the novel which my reading of the novels of other writers had made me feel were necessary for the building of a well-constructed book. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Many authors of stylebooks, such as Strunk and White, try to protect writers against this accidental hilarity with the advice to “keep related words together.” The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Ever since I could pick up a pen, I’ve wanted to be a famous writer. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z “If what these writers say is true, the Black Muslims have the wrong Islam,” he said. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the “newest city” of the world, Twain had written—a place where scientists, writers, philosophers, and intellectuals were gathering in cafés and salons to forge a free and futuristic society. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Prose becomes stuffy when an insecure writer hammers the reader over the head with redundant indicators of a connection, as if unsure that one would be enough. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I’ve always suspected that notions like a “hot hand” or a “clutch hitter” or a “team that always comes back” were exaggerations used by sports- writers and sportscasters just to have something to talk about. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Several letter writers complained that Orson Welles and his cohorts intentionally misled the public by naming actual towns, roads, and government agencies. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “I wonder if that would have been Travis someday. A rich and famous writer, taking the time to meet with kids who were like him.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z “Every writer wants to create lifelike characters—and mine are so lifelike they've walked straight off the page!” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Biblical writers saw the magnificent, 270-foot-high Tower of Babel as an emblem of man’s arrogance in trying to reach heaven. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z This was graffiti, scrawled at all angles and in different sizes, the lines overlapping each other, as if the writer had been so filled with fury he couldn't stop himself from attacking the metal. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The turtle, the dead-end channel, the cliff...Hazel got the feeling this was not the first time the letter writer had ambushed a ship here. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Not all prose should be classic, and not all writers can carry off the pretense. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As she became a better writer, Sefia stopped erasing her words. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Killens, the author of Youngblood, And Then We Heard the Thunder, and other novels, also brought me into the Harlem Writer’s Guild, an organization of black writers. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I wasn’t much of a letter writer, but I’d have to send her a note in return. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Daddy said if we ever got a dog, he’d want to name it Ink, which makes sense now that I know he was a writer. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Each commentator has a curse of knowledge of his own, together with hobbyhorses, blind spots, and axes to grind, and the writer cannot pander to all of them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Right there is James Atlas, the writer from The New Yorker. Over here, that’s Frank Raines. He is the head of the Office of Management and Budget in the Clinton administration.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z As a young woman, Elizebeth had dreamed of being a writer. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z That somewhere is the writing of other writers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z When I got back to the office, the woman writer asked me, just for her own information, what the squashed guy had looked like when he was squashed. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In his spare time, Houseman enjoyed going to the theatre and hanging out with friends who worked as actors, writers, and artists. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z In these dreams, I’m a famous writer who wears flamboyant scarves and travels all around the world, meeting fascinating people. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z But many years later one writer noticed something peculiar about that first bus ride. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z She even hoped to find a writer to work with her on a memoir. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I’d be the last to doubt that good writers are blessed with an innate dose of fluency with syntax and memory for words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Science and math were hard for Kat—she wanted to be a writer. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He wasn't a good writer like you are, was he, Robert? The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z In my bedroom were books by poets and novelists—books that I loved—in which male writers published feelings the men in my family never revealed or acknowledged in words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z At the time, the journal preserved her dignity: she might look and behave like and live the life of a trainee nurse, but she was really an important writer in disguise. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Josh gives me a high-five and tells me I’ll be a famous writer one day. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z To remove the writing load from Houseman, they hired a lanky thirty-six-year-old writer named Howard Koch. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I remember seeing a few pictures of writers in our literature book—mostly boring-looking white guys with beards. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z What’s more, I didn’t know of any living person who made money as a writer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Among other praises bestowed upon him by writers, Philopoemen, Prince of the Achaeans, is praised because in peacetime he thought of nothing except the ways of waging war. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The prospect of traveling back to this delightful state of things is held out by nearly every writer who touches upon classical mythology, above all by the poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z One writer called the park “remote and repulsive”; another, a “sandy waste of unredeemed and desert land.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He did not ask, as many foolishly did, “Wasn’t he a writer?” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Thomas Jones kept the secrets of the pine thicket until, almost twenty years later, he told his tale to a writer. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Howard challenged the anonymous writer to produce proof of his charges and angrily defied anyone in the room to give him a plausible argument for how the allegations could have been possible. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s one magazine writer, and an editor from my own publishing company. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes these worlds lie behind an open door through which no writer has thought to pass for a while. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As writers, then, we should try to get into our readers’ heads and be mindful of how easy it is to fall back on parochial jargon and private abstractions. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As we shall see, the practice of “pointing” our writing has always been offered in a spirit of helpfulness, to underline meaning and prevent awkward misunderstandings between writer and reader. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Is it rejected by the careful writers of the present? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Fate” being the writer’s coy allusion to marriage. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Dozens of other writers and producers and marketing people saw that story on the news—and all of them smelled a great story. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The local writers complained that the Morrisons had to worry and deal with the stress that new publicity “could lead many people to think McMillian is innocent.” Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Not only is she a great writer, but she’s Korean American, which makes me really happy. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z I found other black writers, in particular the journalist Chuck Stone, and I met John O. Killens, who in turn introduced me to James Baldwin. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Jack gestured to the hallway lined with painted portraits of famous San Francisco writers wearing somber expressions and silly costumes. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z No; a bigger and better organization must be launched, one in which the leading writers of the nation could be included, they said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle columnist Oscar Otis was one of the few truly knowledgeable turf scribes and dean of the western racing writers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And another one of those twenty million people was a staff writer for People magazine, and another one was a writer for 3-2-1 Contact magazine for kids. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Surely not even the most careful writer has learned them one by one. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z ‘And I’m glad to welcome another writer into the family.” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z Earlier writers thought of Indians as important, though uncivilized, but later books froze them into a formula: “lazy, childlike, and cruel.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As the physicist and writer James Trefil has put it, "It would be hard to believe that the continuous movement of tectonic plates has no effect on the development of life on earth." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Unfortunately for cosmic justice, many gifted writers are scoundrels, and many inept ones are the salt of the earth. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He had read somewhere that, for true writers, nothing was more important than their art, not even love. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z But you would climb up and reach the Pahlavi, then the first big shelf of American dynasty writers like Stan Lee. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Each of the don’ts corresponds to a way in which a writer can stray from this scenario. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It was just as Mo had said: In general one thought of writers as dead or very, very old. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z In a similar way, writers stop thinking—and thus stop writing— about tangible objects and instead refer to them by the role those objects play in their daily travails. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Minnijean, a Canadian citizen, is a writer and raises her six children on a farm. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She used to be the best writer in school and here she ended up barely passing English. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I liked to look at pictures of writers, and none of the writers whom I was studying in school had any relation to anything I knew as being real. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z We are not complacent about the average age of our contributors and are keen to publish promising young writers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Later, at one of the round rusting metal tables in the comer of the warehouse that served as the lunch area, I found out more about my new writer friend. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z This story is told only by Apuleius, a Latin writer of the second century A.D. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z For these writers, language is not a vehicle for clarity and grace but a way to signal their membership in a social clique. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One writer has claimed that the two didn’t speak to each other for more than thirty years; that’s simply false. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z If W.P.A. workers leaned on their shovels, the writers leaned on their pens. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Academic writers often neglect to do this and trowel out massive slabs of visually monotonous text. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Father” Bill Daly, a peg-legged trainer described by one writer as “villainous,” reportedly carried a barrel stave with him at all times so he could beat his jockeys. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I contended that it would be a mistake for the Communist party to persuade writers to abandon imaginative work to write pamphlets. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But to a generation of writers after Wharton that structure—the lives and mores of the rich, the wellborn, and the climbers—proved endlessly diverting. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She read a couple of languages and knew all the quality writers in the business. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The only essay writer not with the group was Sierra Russell, who, Kyle figured, was off looking for another book to read. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Like an actor with a wooden delivery, a writer who relies on canned verbal formulas will break the spell. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z And I couldn’t imagine telling Big Ma her Bible and a book by a Nigerian writer had something in common. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z The only good writer was a dead writer. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was at a Thanksgiving time that Francie told her first organized lie, was found out and determined to become a writer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Durham whites “were almost unanimous in their indictment of outside agitators,” reported the Anvil writer. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Isaac Tupperman. He’s why I’m telling this story. I went out with him for nearly two months. That’s how come I can remember the names of his favorite writers.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z But by now you can see why they’re sometimes useful: they give the writer additional freedom in ordering phrases in the tree. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z All this was public knowledge and has been related by many a writer. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Knowing a bit of grammar also gives a writer an entree into the world of letters. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The writer paused for a moment to mop his brow and then, since the blackboard was full, erased it completely and continued anew from the top. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Nineteenth- century writers attributed the mound complexes to, among others, the Chinese, the Welsh, the Phoenicians, the lost nation of Atlantis, and various biblical personages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Joe will end up living in New York City and he will be a famous writer. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z I always thought you were a great student and a gifted writer. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “Mami, I want to be an artist, and maybe a writer too, when I grow up.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z I explained the advantages that could be derived from the long-term artistic products of the club’s writers, and pointed out that these more durable products would outweigh all the pamphleteering. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought she had the makings of a good writer herself. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Readers will also thank a writer for the copious use offor example, as in, and such as, because an explanation without an example is little better than no explanation at all. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Two hours of writing fiction leaves this particular writer absolutely drained. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Already? Wasn’t it two weeks ago that G. M. Pennington told you to consider becoming a writer?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z She barely spoke English, but she wanted to be a great writer. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z We talked for a while longer about whether or not I was going to study writing or just be like everyone else who wanted to be a writer and become a teacher instead. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z If they could say what they mean in words, they would surely be writers instead. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The very toughest reporters and writers were women who had taken over the jobs of men who’d gone to war. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This type of portrait was customarily reserved for artists, writers, and the like. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When enough careful writers and speakers fail to do something that a theory of syntax says they should, it could mean that it’s the theory that’s wrong, not the writers. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z One writer marveled at Osage girls who attended the best boarding schools and wore sumptuous French clothing, as if “une très jolie demoiselle of the Paris boulevards had inadvertently strayed into this little reservation town.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The writer should refer to each theme in a consistent way, one that allows the reader to know which is which. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z On January 4, 1993, this writer received an unusual letter, penned in a shaky, anachronistic script that suggested an elderly author. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The classic manuals, written by starchy Englishmen and rock- ribbed Yankees, try to take all the fun out of writing, grimly adjuring the writer to avoid offbeat words, figures of speech, and playful alliteration. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It’s true that every writer must calibrate the degree of specialization in her language against her best guess of the audience’s familiarity with the topic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I am told there are writers who can tap out a coherent essay in a single pass, at most checking for typos and touching up the punctuation before sending it off for publication. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Was it routinely flouted by the great writers of the past? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I’m forty-three years old, and a writer now, and the war has been over for a long while. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They not only fuzz up a writer’s prose but can undermine his intent. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Classic writing, with its assumption of equality between writer and reader, makes the reader feel like a genius. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “Scientists must be good writers as well,” Mrs. Grayson informed him. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z You’ll know Jonathan Swift is the greatest Irish writer that ever lived, no, the greatest man to put pen to parchment. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But pretending to be a writer wasn’t much fun without an audience, so pretty soon she brought her pencil and paper down to the breakfast table. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z I asked for a definition of what was expected from the writers, books or political activity. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z And that professional writers of a type love to reproduce verbatim: Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z This dearest of heroes to the Athenians engaged the attention of many writers. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z The author was a white writer and schoolteacher, formerly from Washington, D.C., named Nick Jans. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Only after laying a semblance of it on the page can a writer free up the cognitive resources needed to make the sentence grammatical, graceful, and, most important, transparent to the reader. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z More profound and unsettling was the bond I recognized with those writers whose books I consulted. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But it’s better when the common threads are made explicit, because in the vast private web of a writer’s imagination, anything can be similar to anything else. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z A Scottish writer of the late 1700s noticed that tea had “become an economical substitute to the middle and lower classes of society for malt liquor,” which they could no longer afford. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Together with verbal coffins like model and level in which writers entomb their actors and actions, the English language provides them with a dangerous weapon called nominalization: making something into a noun. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z She never missed an antislavery convention, and she became friends with writers and other social reformers, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Frederick Douglass. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The child of a barely known glove maker from the Midlands—“born of parents not distinguished from their neighbors”—could grow up to be the most prominent writer of the English language. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z If he is a writer of fiction he lives in a world of fear. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z I suppose if that definition is strictly held to, then a writer of stories is a liar—if he is financially fortunate. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The writer was saying that in return for full bellies and entertainment, his people had given up their political responsibilities and therefore their power.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z If a writer believes that 90 percent of the evidence and argument supports a position, then something like 90 percent of the discussion should be devoted to the reasons for believing it. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Thanks to the computer, the Internet, and the fortunate gift of a CD writer from a friend, I was in business. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z What the headline writer intended was ravaged, meaning “damaged” or “destroyed.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered what the original word of the original writer had been that these very different translations could be made.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I had known a writer’s loneliness before, working on my dissertation in the British Museum. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Dismayed, Elizebeth noted that some writers were “afraid of the technicality of the subject.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The paradox of all this attention was that many of the turf writers who covered Seabiscuit knew next to nothing about horses and racing. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They got their beginning as writers by going where the action was—to war—and I could, too. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I had supposed that writers of books just said that in the same way as they made happy endings at the last minute. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z "A fine writer will always make you feel that," Mrs Phelps said. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The writer of the book called Cortes a great man. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I’m a freelance writer,” I said to her. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was insane. The writer said I should be President of the World.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Isabel, a tenacious reporter and mellifluous writer who returned from a long book-writing leave for this project, had composed one of the most powerful chapters in the 1993 “Children of the Shadows” series. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z First came the white newspapers—feature writers and columnists: “Alarming” . . . “hate-messengers” . . . “threat to the good relations between the races” . . . “black segregationists” . . . “black supremacists,” and the like. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Who is making the best headway any producer could possibly make with a writer who is—” started Mr. Gregory. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “I really thought she was going to be a writer,” Mr. P said. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z Later writers tended to attribute European success not to European deities but to European technology. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Please. I don’t understand what Mr. Nolan wants. He says I’m a good writer, but I’m still doing something wrong.” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In fact, gerunds with unmarked subjects were the historically earlier form, have long been used by the language’s best writers, and are perfectly idiomatic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The writer is freed from the obligation of finding an auditor in public. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So their American designers could be on the screen speaking with their Indian software writers and their Asian manufacturers all at once. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Her well-known father, the writer Roald Dahl, had sent her to Haiti for a taste of adventure and perhaps to find a useful life serving others. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Articles had already been done and by professional writers. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Clumsy writers do a lot of that, too. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Why should a writer want to control the order in which the reader thinks her thoughts? The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I smiled, though suddenly the insecure writer in me wasn’t so sure he wanted to hear it. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Or I contended in my mind against the ignorant writers who condemned women as frail and lacking in virtue. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A writer also has to harmonize the tenses according to a scheme called sequence of tenses, tense agreement, or backshift. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z As promised, the writer had enclosed an old snapshot. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The Usage Panel is intended to be a sample of the virtual community for whom careful writers write. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Grandand Rice, the preeminent sports- writer in the country, accused him of gross overconfidence. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing I was missing was my own CD writer, because it was the most expensive component. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I was not a daily writer, or even a weekly writer: I picked up a pen only when I had the time and energy to sort through my jumbled feelings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I told Sampson that he was not only a very bad person, but a bad writer, too. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z Mama did not say that was a good name for a writer. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Now when a writer really does want to refer to a past-time event in a remote conditional, he needs the past tense of a past-tense form. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Here again the English language is mathematically elegant and provides the writer with a neat group of symmetries. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In his small library were works of poetry and philosophy and novels by such writers as Somerset Maugham. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It rained in New York State, the Empire State, rained cold and pitiless, as the highway-sign writers would put it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I loved it, and immediately thought it was up to me to record my boat's history, like so many other sea writers had done. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Their hacking coughs and complete lack of output suggested that, for certain writers, smoking was obviously not enough. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The writer can see the links among the concepts in his internal web of knowledge, and has forgotten that a reader needs to build an orderly tree to decipher them from his string of words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “I work at a lumberyard and I imagine stuff while I work. What did your parents think about you becoming a writer?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z "I think he's a good writer, too," Bill said. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z At the time it never occurred to any of us that we were doing anything wrong—if copying CDs is wrong, why would they make CD writers? Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a lot of money, but it was enough for me to call myself a writer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Because of what he had said about a writer being the one who puts words together, I knew that he couldn’t write any more than he could speak. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked what was to become of the young writers whom the Communist party had implored to join the clubs and who were ineligible for the new group, and there was no answer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The party leader demanded that writers be assigned the task of producing pamphlets for the use of trade unions. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, here’s where I can give you your favorite writer’s advice: ‘I write to discover what I know.’ Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z I can hardly count the letters I’ve received saying that my journey through Central High School inspired the letter writers to stand up for their rights. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Only a small and militant sect of California writers was siding with Seabiscuit. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered how interesting we would be to a real writer. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z As Mr. Language Person implies, sometimes a writer really does need to express a negation. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z After that the rumours of the gossip writers had started. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The goal of classic style is to make it seem as if the writer’s thoughts were fully formed before he clothed them in words. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The vagueness lies in the focus of the negation—which phrase the writer had in mind as falsifying the whole sentence. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The list of the chief writers through whom the myths have come down to us is not long. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because writers never have to beat anyone up or lift anything heavy. At least I don’t think they do,” he joked. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z At Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, he described the machine’s capabilities for Karl Darrow, the lab’s eminent physicist and a writer of popular science articles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “No! But this stupid article should’ve given me the stupid answer but the stupid writer didn’t write what he should’ve written.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Sometimes a writer has no choice but to hedge a statement. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z I find I think of myself not as a writer so much as someone who provides a gateway, a tangential route for readers to reach the circus. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Does the writer want to stay anonymous, or do you want to tell us what this is?” Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z The spring of 1935 came and the plans for the writers’ congress went on apace. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like an actor remaining in character and refusing to leave his dressing room, or a writer refusing to leave his garret after finishing a book. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In fairness to journalists and other synonymomaniacs, there are times when a writer really does need to avoid repeating words in close succession. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z The FTP employed nearly fifteen thousand writers, actors, directors, designers, and stage technicians. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Yet we’re brainwashed to believe that the more brilliant the writer, the tougher the going. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Now we were being driven out by a force the writer could never have imagined—the Taliban. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Once, I told Apá that I wanted to be a writer, but all he said was that I had to make enough money so I didn’t have to live in an apartment full of roaches. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She must be a great writer if the school board is afraid of her. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z Most of the geeks who hung out on Slashdot had never come nose-to-nose with a professional writer on the Web before, let alone one with few technical or computing skills. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I can try to salvage the site, maybe revamp it and turn it into something else—a place where writers can share their work. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “Almost a year ago, a family lost a father, a husband, and a tremendous writer,” Mrs. Priest says. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z In short, I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Things like that turn men into writers and other, worse things. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z I accompanied him to meetings with prospective directors and writers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Some writers and editors believe that if that can logically follow a verb, it should be there. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The noun system of English provides a writer with ways to distinguish entities the reader is being introduced to for the first time from the entities he already knows about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z |
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