For me it is very important to go back to the writer as they are the main core of the story.

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Labour's Baroness Rendell of Babergh, the crime writer, highlighted the "unwillingness" of young girls to go to court and give evidence against people who she claimed, in many cases, could be their own parents.

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How much a writer makes depends directly on Helium's advertising revenue. (At least 20% of the company's top-line revenues go to writer payments, Ranalli says.) Therefore, he is hoping to draw in more eyeballs.

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Alas, his work there is now forgotten, and he spent his declining years batting out profiles of show-business celebrities like Mel Brooks and Johnny Carson for the New Yorker, a sad way for so spectacularly gifted a writer to go out.

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