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.
Had not the great writer and thinker Montesquieu himself said the republic relied on virtue, and virtue consisted in the capacity of individuals to exercise their own freely-formed judgment?
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The great American writer Ernest Hemingway despised this kind of flabby, indulgent storytelling.
As an admirer of the great comic writer and actor (and gadget obsessive) I was delighted to spot him on another friend's network.
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".
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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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.
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.
The Great Gatsby was scripted by Luhrmann and co-writer Craig Pearce, who worked together eight-time Oscar nominated film, Moulin Rouge!
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.
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.
Sir Tom Stoppard completes the Parade's End shortlist with his nomination for the BPG Writer's Award, while Masterchef: The Professionals and the Great British Bake Off go head-to-head in the Best Factual Entertainment category, alongside Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs and Who Do You Think You Are?
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.
But does he have the narrative verve to carry this great story through from beginning to end, and the psychological insight to marry the writer's inner and outer worlds?
The ways in which a writer balances this dynamic is crucial, as we can see by comparing two great novels.
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The death of New York Daily News writer and cartoonist Bill Gallo robbed sports journalism of one of its all time great talents, and one of its all time time good guys.
"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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