a writer

Ma said a writer in Shanghai told him he thought Taipei is a very friendly city because he was once given directions by a passer-by.

Academy Permanent Secretary Horace Engdahl said he was a writer of great diversity.

In the late 1960s, around the time that the group split up, Terry began to establish himself as a writer and producer for other artists.

Perhaps Hawthorne would have benefited as a writer if he had accepted an offer once made to him to join in a voyage to the South Seas.

Apparently, she had all the ideal opportunities to become a writer, especially when she was hit by the plot of a little wizard in 1990.

And when he won a collegiateliterary prize, Norman Mailer knew that his true calling was as a writer.

He decided to leave the company to strike out on his own as a writer.

This suggestion might seem to put an extra burden on a writer, but the opposite is the case.

As a writer, I was used to being detached, but I was hit by a wave of sadness as I tried to say goodbye.

At this point, all the hardest work of a paper is behind a writer. The research. The writing. The thorough and formal citation.

While he was a prisoner he met a writer called Rustichello who wrote down the long story that Marco told him about his travels.

"When a writer sells a book, he gets an advance on the profits, " I said as I scraped moss from between the shingles.

As a writer, I seem to spend most of the time working at home, not in the office, sitting in front of the typewrite .

Later that year her husband, also a writer, encouraged her to expand her story into a full-length novel.

If you want to be a writer, a serious writer, your focus has to be on writing as well as you can and all those other things are incidental.

One guy was a writer, and he wrote a story on me. And I'm actually going out with him this weekend.

If you've been reading Dumb Little Man for a while, you might have figured out that I'm a writer.

Even as a child, without any prompting from others, I wanted to be a writer and, indeed, I turned out a good deal of the usual juvenilia.

If you are a writer, you should not only write a song a week, but spend twice as long improving it as you do writing it.

Phil Bradley, a writer and search engine expert at Search Engine Watch, said the system makes sense for a mobile phone.

In other words, no journal-keeping by a writer who harbors any sort of ambition is going to be entirely innocent.

This was the book that made him as a writer and also the book that brought "ciao" into English.

It's just a writer on one side of the world, and an editor on the other, serving this up to the Hyperspace community.

Born Lula Carson Smith on February 19, 1917, in Columbus, Georgia, Carson McCullers did not always want to be a writer.

It was not too much that she was said to be a writer with a unique talent and personal style in the history of modern Chinese literature.

As a writer who had always been much to fond of parentheses and footnotes, I found this opportunity to go off on tangents irresistible.

Can there ever have been a more appropriate memorial to a writer than the new Samuel Beckett bridge that opened in Dublin on 10 December?

His mother Mae Soong worked for the Voice of America there, and his father Stephen Soong was a writer, translator and movie producer.

Haggis decided at an early age to be a writer, and he made his own comic books.

As a writer, Mr Montefiore has an elegant turn of phrase and an unerring ear for the anecdote that will cut to the heart of a story.

So he started to cook. That led to his first book, which actually put him on the map as a writer.

For a writer who "had decided to suspend his writing temporarily, " what are the problems for his writing creation he had perceived?

Our new president is in the broadest sense of the word. . . a reader, and a writer.

As a writer, I don't accept that readers pirate my books and I would consider myself a thief if I ever buy counterfeits.

His literary criticism was the combination of his social-political criticism as a statesman and his aesthetic appreciation as a writer.

Self-belief, at least, was never a problem, and with success as a writer came greater success with women.

if i fail as a writer , i shall have proved for the career of editorship.

Luckily for me, my hair is quite long, and if anyone asks at a dinner party I say I'm a writer trying to get his first novel published.

When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

Using plot and character development, a writer expressed his or her philosophy about how much control a man really had over his own destiny.

When invited to say what he is reading at the moment, a writer always mentions a book no one has ever heard of.

He was a wretched fellow, not exactly educated, not exactly ignorant, who had been a mountebankat fairs, and a writer for the public.

Famous as she is, she cannot be compared with him as a writer of tragedies.

A writer ought to write as if he was going to die at the end of a book.

Yesterday, a writer of the interview, people only buy books that a year spent 1, 2 million, how much do I have?

That Ruth had little faith in his power as a writer, did not alter her nor diminish her in Martin's eyes.

Steven: I've worked here for almost seven years. I've been a director for five years. I was a writer for two years.

And whatever his flaws as a novelist, his growing mastery of the short-story form continued to define him as a writer.

I remember going to a writer for a national magazine and telling him this was a story the American people should hear.

A writer for Canada's Globe and Mail referred to that incident in a column headlined, "China's hit-and-run morality. "

Understanding how much you are vital to this world as a writer is a powerful motivator.

A writer conceives of it, a producer oversees its evolution, and a director envisions its narrative for the camera.

The goal of a writer is not to make a killing on any single trade but to grind out a steady income.

B&TF: If you were a writer or producer, what kind of a storyline would you envision for your characters?

Martin decided to leave the company and to strike out as a writer.

LG: That's so funny because I had a lover who was a writer, and I used to leave him notes in his book, so it meant a lot to me.

He grew up in east China's Anhui Province, the son of a writer and a dancer.

Steinbeck, I believe, had deficiencies as a writer, while Malamud seems to me to be more durable.

Or, as a writer in The Washington Times lamented last week: "Mr Mubarak may have been a tinpot dictator, but he supported America. "

A share paid to a writer or composer out of the proceeds resulting from the sale or performance of his or her work.

Finding the ideal working habits that will allow me to write as consistently as possible is always something I'm exploring as a writer.

Tell him the only thing I want in life is to be a writer, and that's what I'm going to be.

But then I came to the realisation that you don't get many opportunities to be a writer so at the moment I'm doing that full time.

It's refreshing to see a writer address the issues of a realistic situation instead of an ideal one.

The form of life experience should be a writer run-in with the narrative of a "significant form" rather than the form itself.

Before his career and destiny as a writer was established, Douglas had been through a wide range of other career ideas.

There was a time when I loved writing so much that I dreamed of becoming a writer.

Bi Feiyu, a writer with a strong sense of social participation, has the authoring idea of restoring real life based on the theme of injury.

I'm learning as I write my novel that you cannot be a writer unless you love the small things. Unless you cherish them.

He gave a reminder of his ultimate purpose as a writer.

From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer.

If I were a writer , my frist work would be Mother . If were a singer , my frist song would be Mother, too.

How it is anyone decided that this woman should get paid to be a writer, I'll never understand.

His father wants to make a writer of him.

When he wrote this excellent novel , he was at the height of his powers as a writer .

As a writer, having a glimpse into how readers react to different topics, styles and techniques can be very enlightening.

The second goal, and a theme of the class, is to develop your sense of yourself as a writer.

If you are a writer or producer, you may be dealing with a publishing or broadcasting company, and all of it should make you smile.

Malamud's main premise as a writer, as he explains, was "to keep civilization from destroying itself" .

A writer has found a small deposit of manganese ore and rock specimens flecked with uranium or stained green by copper.

A writer's consciousness is raised by the plight of the downtrodden, the little guy pushed around, the victim of injustice.

It was the first time I'd seen people behave this way, and I'd been an editor and a writer for all most forty years.

Kashi, a photojournalist, and Winokur, a writer and filmmaker, ended up in San Francisco, thousands of miles from their childhood homes.

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture.

Chinese middle class to see the current situation, there is a writer in Shenyang at the bottom of the icehouse Qileng and desolate.

Helen Keller spent the rest of her life as a writer, lecturer, and advocate for the deaf and blind and other disadvantaged groups.

He was a writer, and a survivor, and his turbulent professional apprenticeship had taught him some important lessons.

In holding with the basic ASM philosophy, the same interface can also be used for a writer to generate signature strings on demand.

Copyrights protect works that owe their origin to the expressive efforts of a writer, composer, artist, or other creative individual.

A writer and translator living in Manhattan, she was suffering from chronic myeloid leukemia, an especially deadly form of blood cancer.

Most people think of Shakespeare as a writer. But he was also a theater producer, a part owner of an acting company and an actor.

The girl told me that she wanted to be a writer when she grew up.

China, a writer came to the United States, he saw a flower of the old lady is always very happy, very strange.

A statesman, a philosopher, a writer, and a scientist, he was even rumored to have written some of Shakespeare's plays.

He says John Fitz Gerald, a writer for a New York newspaper, used the name the Big Apple to mean New York in the nineteen twenties.

John, as you know, is a writer.

A writer has some hope even if he is not appreciated. He assumes that his works will bear witness to what he was.

Washington Irving has always been regarded as a writer who "perfected the best classic style that American literature ever produced" .

I had admired and almost idolized Mencken as a writer long before I got to meet him, about 1930 or so.

I started laughing because it got to the point where, was I a writer, or was I a homeless woman?

You wanted to be a musician (a writer, astronaut, whatever) but everyone told you it was a bad idea, and you didn't even try.

The work of an economist (Levitt) and a writer (Dubner), Freakonomics used economic theory and data to explain social phenomena.

Not at all. I'd like todo something more creative. Maybe I could be a writer, Or an artist, Oh, I could be a singer.

She thought the narrow borders of her life -- lived "between the house and the chicken yard" -- wouldn't give a writer much to work with.

He was more inspired (and inspiring) as a teacher and conversationalist than as a writer.

As censorship ended and the country enjoyed an expanding economy, it was a good time for Alexandre to be a writer.

I wanted to be a doctor, a writer, a teacher, a scientist, a pop star and a leader of the county.

'Food had been my consuming passion, ' says Birnbaum, now a writer, in her just published book Season To Taste.

However, it is only through translation that a writer is able to expand his or her readership around the world.

Hemingway was as handsome as a film star , Bogart as sophisticated as a writer .

I have not, as Kant enjoined, regarded each man as an end in himself, but as material that might be useful to me as a writer.

I clicked there. It wasn't fancy. But she covered the team with the seriousness of a writer. Still, I wondered, is anybody reading?

To him, the primary duty of a writer was to explore and represent the infinite possibilities inherent in human life.

He was not able to fulfill himself in business, so he became a writer.

Zhang Ailing pessimism is a writer, she a cool almost cruel Miao T, has issued a desolate were blossoming of a flower with a legendary.

No, that came from a story where a writer talked about a remix album of theirs and had an advance tape of it.

She hopes to go back to work once her child reaches school age, but wants to earn money as a writer and not as a factory worker any more.

Within two years, I was writing as much as paddling, the money I made as a guide supplementing the money I made as a writer.

Tolstoy was a writer who could not write a line that did not come from a deep centre.

My dream is to become a writer, in the future write a lot of books, make everybody able to see.

A writer in the Maryland Gazette in 1776 declared that "the ultimate end of all freedom is the enjoyment of a right to free suffrage. "

Besides, he was the former president of the Harvard Law Review, a writer and a teacher at a premier law school, the University of Chicago.

In such Western country like the USA, it's very hard for a writer to make a living only by writing.

"He wants to be a writer, " she said.

five personalities rode in a hot air balloon, they were a writer, a chemist, a physicist, a medical scientist and meteorologist.

To my mind, Rewi Alley was a poet and a translator of Chinese poetry as much as a writer.

It was always Aleksander Solzhenitsyn's ambition to be a writer.

One of them, however, The Pastures of Heaven, by a strange stroke of fortune, established his career as a writer.

His father is a writer and his mother is an artist.

Steinbeck studied science at university, but from an early age declared himself to be a writer and set up an unrelenting daily routine.

Getting into the habit of writing a little bit everyday, is supposedly one of the important things a writer can do.

The idea of being a writer had come to me off and on since childhood, but it wasn't until recently that the possibility took hold.

I should be a writer, but I will be a doctor, and out of the philosophical tension I will create a self.

That wouldn't be all that surprising if Christensen weren't a writer of such formidable talents.

The stages of a writer's professional life are marked not by a name on an office door, but by a name in ink.

Carver was barely 18 when he married 16-year-old Maryann Burk, but he had already dedicated himself to life as a writer.

I eventually chose the former, bowed out of my high-tech job, and became a writer and a guilty dependent of my husband.

Cunningham started as a print journalist and retains a writer's sense of composition, a reporter's eye for news.

These times are what has shaped me as a writer and these days stand as standard for me of what can be done.

Johann Hari is a writer for the Independent newspaper. To read more of his articles, click here. or here.

Immediately he took a job as a writer and copy editor for a music magazine.

A writer for the magazine " American Speech" said he first saw the expression used in 1971.

i participate in a writer ' s group , am involved in a study of scholarly texts , attend church on sundays and get together with friends.

As a writer she was on a par with the great novelists.

The early nineteen twenties marked the beginning of Zora Neale Hurston's life as a writer.

For Edward McClelland, a writer in Chicago, deliverance finally arrived a few days ago.

A writer of fiction since she was a child, Qi Mo wrote several science fiction novels while in primary school.

One day while watching baseball he realized his destiny was to be a writer.

What an easier way is there for a nurse, a barber, or a writer to lose professional identity than to step out of uniform?

Mo said he began to nurse a dream of becoming a writer, with three dumpling meals every day.

People have asked if my family thought I would be a writer, but I don't think they did.

Eliot Coleman is an organic farmer and a writer in Maine who has helped popularize the idea of four season farming.

I'm not much of a writer myself, so I'm having Isaac Asimov write this up for me.

And purely by accident, I ran into a writer who had been working with Oliver on another film.

When he was a boy, he wanted to become a writer and he wanted to write plays and act at the theater.

In other words, if you want to be a writer, you need to have the tools that facilitate writing at your disposal.

As a writer, I often find myself imagining some happy future: "Once I sell this proposal. . . " or "Once this book comes out. . . "

Maybe you had a dream of becoming somebody. An actor, a writer, or just a happy husband. Maybe you wanted to change the world.

It was the first time a writer or director had been chosen to workshop two different projects at Sundance.

M. knew that his true calling was as a writer.

It is about a writer who betrays his art for money and is unable to remain true to himself.

But which one you prefer will depend on whether or not you believe a writer's text is the best window into his soul.

As I grew up , I came to accept one truth, that of my dream to become a writer .

If you're a writer, read a book on design and try it out. Yes, you probably won't be any good.

SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: "A writer is always alone, always an outsider, " Ernest Hemingway said.

As I grew up, I made my peace with the fact that I would never fulfill my dream of becoming a writer.

A large cast of characters has to deal with the ensuing mayhem. Cusack plays a writer trying to save his family.

And he really restored the notion of the novel as a kind of canvas on which a writer can do anything.

No man could stand alone with him as a writer.

Q I've ideal is to be a writer, but I had 20 points university entrance exam composition!

Many people cherish the fond dream of becoming a writer but not many are able to see their dream come true.

You, as a player of EVE should consider yourself to be a writer, not a reader.

Sarah Melanie Fine, a writer, went for a run every morning when she was teaching in a Washington school.

She is a writer as well as a mother, so her books are popular with the children.

In my job as a writer, there is nothing that comes close to being as crucial as creating.

Since Swift was a writer there is a ton of things to quote. He is 8 of my favourite pearls of wisdom at the moment.

So, although I thought it might be quite fun to be a writer, I didn't dare to write anything.

A writer's got to sell a lot of books for that.

This week Tristane Banon, a writer, filed a lawsuit against him for an alleged assault in 2003.

Whenever I had the right stuff to be a writer, I would reread don's note and feel confident again.

In the bright and clean campus, the boy was with a dream to allow themselves to be a writer.

Of course a writer doing this is misunderstood: he might as well try to explain a crime or a love affair.

A writer for the World Weekly, Mr. J has been trying to play a small role in bridging the Sino-American cultures.

One mark of a writer's greatness is that different minds can get a different inspiration from his works.

His father is a writer and his mother is a musician.

I've never really felt like a writer. It was always a visual thing for me.

Everyone who starts a business, gets their PhD, becomes a writer or other similar things all take on risk to do it.

The response object lets you set HTTP response headers and provides a writer identified with out in the JSP code.

In fact, I am still making a movie, really, and everybody can be in it as a writer, actor, director and star. It's a movie of life.

This does not include a writer Lee workplace experience can be specifically written parenting Yin Jianli.

Conroy writes that he owes a "personal debt" to Gone With the Wind and claims he became a writer because of it.

At the same time, think that this lofty ideal has sprouted just at my heart serving as a writer.

they feel that it is presumptuous of a writer to assume that his little excursion or his small observations will interest the reader.

I used to show great promise as a writer but I ended up being a businessman.

Han Han, a writer who may be one of the widest-read Internet personalities in the world, is one proof.

He was not simply a writer, but a visionary who would mend Russia; and, as such, he believed he was on equal terms with Soviet leaders.

Turner Wright is a marathon runner first, an adventurer second, and a writer through it all.

A soldier must have armaments, just as a writer must have pens.

A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, Robert Test was a writer for television and radio when he wrote this essay.

at 16 she chose a writer ' s life because typed words did not die , like talk , but stayed on the paper.

If he lost this Senate run, or just got sick of politics, he probably could make a living as a writer of some kind.

During the course of transition, the translator first acts as a reader of the source text and then a writer of the target text.

He is a writer and a journalist, and the director of the Association for the Defense of Political Prisoners' Rights.

As a writer and as a person, Parker likes to say outrageous things to get a rise out of people.

but it cemented his reputation as a writer who could use the American landscape as a metaphor to tremendous effect.

He began working as a writer and editor for monthly magazines.

Rachel Carson decided to become a writer at a very early age.

Yet as a writer he never fully occupied either and so never found the perfect mode of expression.

But his passion is as a writer and critic of pseudoscience and superstition among both the domestic and overseas Chinese communities.

Make time to pursue your passion, no matter how busy you are. I've always wanted to be a writer, and get a book published.

Katharine Hepburn's character, Tracy Lord, is talking with her new friend, Macaulay Connor, a writer.

You gotta keep in mind what's interesting to you as an audience, not what's fun to do as a writer. They can be v. different.

He was more of a writer than a painter.

each of the cards represents an actual use of the word by a writer of some literary or historical importance.

Ji Chen, a writer of Yao Minority, is one of the four talented women in Guangxi literary world.

However, although I'm not a writer, many literary works have come about because of me.

The underlying XmlWriter object does not have to be a writer created by the static Create method.

His sister has been a writer all her life.

Good examples help to clarify a writer's thought by making the general specific, and the abstract concrete.

Even if Mr Rogers, a writer and human-rights activist, knew Burmese, he would grapple with the secrecy that surrounds the junta.

Gives people a sense of ominous silence, I even think that a writer would not be jumping into the quagmire of the unfinished bar.

Characterization The ways in which a which a writer reveals the personality of a character id like .

I'm a writer and a journalist, and I'm also an insanely curious person.

Today we tell about film actress Mae West. She was also a writer, producer and businesswoman.

A writer of international reputation is a sort of "ambassador of ideas" .

despite occasional doubt about my choice to be a writer, she thinks what im doing is generally not bad.

I used to be a linguist till I become a writer.

a poor apology The man you've just mentioned is but a poor apology for a writer. His writings are tedious.

"Blogging had not even been invented, " she says, "I became a writer by accident. "

Articulate why being a writer is important to you, and how your life goals can still support your common values.

She had "a glare that could wilt a cactus" according to a writer in Time, and wore a broach in the shape of a dollar sign.

He always remembers he hoped to be a writer when he was young.

They were for a book signing and reading event featuring Emily Barnes, a writer I absolutely adored.

A writer of pamphlets OR other shORt wORks taking a partisan stand on an issue.

Eliot Coleman is an organic farmer and a writer in Maine who has helped popularize the idea offourseason4-season farming.

Dr. Zhang is a writer and translator who wants to see the welfare of human beings so that life on earth acquire a higher potency and value.

Judy dreamed to become a writer someday. Together with Sallie, Julia and Uncle Jervis, Judy led a happy life in high school.

I'd rather have been a writer than a dancer.

Whenever I doubted I had the right stuff to be a writer, I would reread his note.

In his spare time he struggled to establish himself as a writer of poetry, fiction and literary criticism.

As a writer it's very hard to catch your own mistakes, and just running spellchecker is not enough.

As long as he can, a writer will stay within his mother tongue, his safe domain.

When overridden in a derived class, returns a writer used to serialize the object.

When a writer is evaluated, his life ideal should be considered as an important factor.

One time a woman and a guy started talking. I know him -- he's a nice guy, a writer.

Software that takes a formatted file and turns it into an RTF file is called a writer.

A scientist, as well as a writer, must be creative and imaginative.

Of course, I wasn't thinking in terms of being a writer then - I was just thinking about how to escape, all the time.

Born in 1940, he began his career as a writer as early as the sixties.

It may be the portrait of a great leader, a famous scientist or a writer.