It helps that he's a great writer who knows how to put a tune to a tale.
Ms. ADAMS: I would have to say that "Open My Heart" was the one that really, for me, signifies, you know, I'm a great writer.
Unlike Amsterdam, which won him the 1998 Booker prize, most reviewers think this is the product of a great writer at the peak of his skills.
What Mandela saw in Achebe was the characteristic that inhabits all great literature: details that seem very particular retain their uniqueness in the hands of a great writer.
Once in a great while a writer at the opposite end of the political spectrum gets you to look at a familiar set of facts in a new way.
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He will be remembered as a great American writer and critic.
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Former prime minister Gordon Brown paid tribute, describing Mr Wicks as "a great thinker, writer, campaigner and parliamentarian".
After seven great years as a staff writer at Forbes, in July I left my job.
"The writer had a great story he wanted to telll - for us, that's what matters first and foremost, " he said.
It is as if Pushkin is too great a mountain for any one writer to scale.
During the worst year of the Great Depression, 1937, a writer named Napoleon Hill picked the theme out of the gutter and lifted the spirits of the country, with a best seller called Think and Grow Rich.
This film has been several years in the making, with five solo films woven together to build up to it, and Whedon is not just a great filmmaker and TV show creator, he is in fact a comic book writer of serious talent as well, and he took his time working to write and rewrite this film to get it right.
The English writer and essayist George Orwell was also a great advocate of an economic style and like Vonnegut compiled his own set of rules on how to write well.
Despite some critical indignation over Dave Eggers's "autobiography" of Valentino Achak Deng in "What Is the What, " I had no problem with the writer collaborating with his subject to make a great story even more compelling.
The great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov, in a classic novel called the Foundation, posited an advanced mathematical-rhetorical technology that could convert any speech to symbols, which could in turn be simplified like any other complex equation.
It should have made a great movie, but the director, Ron Underwood, and his writer, Robert King, have softened the blows that are needed for a battle of wits.
The ways in which a writer balances this dynamic is crucial, as we can see by comparing two great novels.
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"My experience with the paramedics team was great -- if that's possible under the circumstances, " says Monroe, a teacher and writer who lives in Charles Town, West Virginia.
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