The dream of being a writer and the price one has to pay for excellence are impossible to demonstrate or, really, even to fathom.
Edna and I both came out of houses that not only didn't have books, but also where the notion of being a writer for a living was ludicrous.
Being a writer who makes his living off the writing of words which appear on computer screens, I would kind of like to see words stay for a while.
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He says it is absurd for anybody to imagine Chinua Achebe being a writer with a dirty mind, adding that the Church's moral police could utilise their energies better crusading against the lewd publications that litter the newsstands and which any teenager with a few pennies to spare can snap up.
The trick seems to be, as Winn Scotch says, toeing the line between being a professional writer and a human being.
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One of the perks of being a business writer is you get tons of free books from publishers.
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But with me being a freelance writer, I certainly did not make enough to solely support our family of four (have you ever seen the grocery bill for two teenage boys?).
Keller, who is 62, will return to being a full-time writer for the Times.
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With that being said, Jimi Izrael is a writer and culture critic.
Homosexuality has gone from being a criminal offense that could, and did, send writer Oscar Wilde to jail in England, to a comic staple in movies and TV shows, to a subject of serious constitutional study.
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Perhaps predictably, Wozniak was higher on a Steve Jobs film being developed by writer Aaron Sorkin ("The West Wing, " "The Social Network, " "A Few Good Men").
This constant feedback is occasionally agonizing when readers fail to materialize, but I firmly believe that this continual criticism is helping me become a more authentic writer and human being as well.
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Along with being a performer, Meyers is the show's head writer.
But the studio has yet to finalize a script, now being written by "Slumdog Millionaire" writer Simon Beaufoy.
Mr Ahsan, a British-born poet and writer, denies being involved in terrorist activity.
It made the writer acutely self-conscious of being European-American, a latter-day scion of the Renaissance wedding of Greek and Roman with Judeo-Christians traditions.
In 2010 a great friend and literary agent, Lorin Rees talked me into writing a book (www.greggfairbrothers.com) on turning ideas into success, despite the fact I'm no writer, and now here I am writing about leadership and being entrepreneurial in a blog, despite the fact I'm no blogger either.
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To be sure, this honor is not being bestowed upon the shade of Daniel Patrick Moynihan (1927-2003) because he was a writer.
As a result the writer gets all up in arms about how people without HDTVs are being called poor slobs, and worse , that the integrity of sport has been compromised because god forbid, there might be a moment where no camera angle shows every single player on the ice.
Seth takes on the book world as just another writer with a novel in English, demanding no indulgence for the exotic experience of being from a distant commonwealth.
Nancy was writing from personal experience (being a child of divorce, not the taking up with the bartender part), as was her co-writer Carroll Cartwright, who lived down the street from her when she lived in Santa Monica.
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