These qualities are what have made great writers great, whether they be George Eliot or Tolstoy.
Like all great writers, Waits is a conscientious observer of people and their strange foibles.
And you point out in your book that indeed great writers were always the classroom for the next generation.
But the place had a certain mystical appeal to him, ever since he read the great writers of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance--W.E.
The really great writers, like those I mentioned earlier, were considered paragons of a talent few could claim to have mastered so thoroughly.
Among the meetings with edgy ex-presidents, leonine great writers and radicals with Afros out to their shoulders, one incident stuck in his mind.
The great writers and artists are presented not as they actually were but as Gil wants them to be, as quintessential versions of themselves.
And what I have always believed and what I say in the book is the best place to learn to write is from great writers.
And with that we'll return somewhat sheepishly to Vonnegut's rules on storytelling, which it must be said he did note that most great writers tend to break, with the exception of the first.
While meant as reference book it is also quite readable, or at least skimmable, and with no disrespect to Michael Jackson or any of the other historically great writers on whisky, it makes every other book I own pretty much obsolete.
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He would be away from his family for two or three days at a time he would stay on after his shift to watch a show, or he would go to the library and read books in the hall of culture, glancing admiringly now and then at the portraits of great writers and their various hangers-on.
Readers are apparently quite vocal about great American writers who have yet to receive the Library of America's stamp of approval.
Many great business writers have taken on the daunting questions and challenges that so often turn philanthropic and entrepreneurial endeavors into misguidance and waste.
While I wait for you to enlighten me, I will perform the sacred Bloomsday ritual of genuflecting solemnly before the Poster of Great Irish Writers.
But I began to wonder are there people out there like me who have tried to toss off aphorisms as such or are they usually just chips that accidentally shoot out from the lobal lathes of great thinkers and writers?
Subscribers can embark on a journey of discovery of great British talent and writers, as well as learning the story of Doctor Who's famous Daleks in Daleks Forever which is just one of the curated collections available in the extensive archive.
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He also received the Diamond Dagger award, the highest honor of the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain, in 1990.
Their challenge is not as great as that of solitary writers staring at a blank computer screen, yellow legal pad, or sheet of paper.
All writers, even great ones, need copyediting.
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Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.
It comes as a great comfort to me that although tax writers may not be aware, young CPAs have a chance to see what is coming and gear up.
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Using that series as a template and, hint-hint WB, hiring Brubaker and Rucka as series writers a really great, unique police procedural show could be developed that has mega crossover appeal.
From a business perspective, I have had the great fortune of getting to know over 70 writers (and growing) from every walk of life.
Like many writers, I once dreamed of writing the great American novel but gave that up in an attempt to write the great American screenplay.
One of the great things about Internet journalism is the dialogue it fosters among writers, readers and sources.
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It'd be great to think that at least one of the male Forbes writers could come up with reasons why Noer is so completely wrong.
Ms Berry, who has been made a CBE, is one of the UK's best-known cookery writers and appeared on television co-presenting The Great British Bake Off.
People have started to think and write in 140 characters, and we begin to see great and exclusive sentences, good words and thoughts spread by writers, politicians and personalities on Twitter.
Great editors, it's been said, create vessels into which writers can pour their work.
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