Sentences with phrase «most writers i know»

I so enjoyed my chat with Chris Dikes about writing — as most writers know, it's a rare pleasure to talk with a sympathetic someone about our work.

Most writers I know have a kind of orneriness at their core that makes it easier to deal with the risk factor.

If you're like most writers I know, writing query letters doesn't top your list of favorite things.

Most writers I know do about 4 pages in an hour, so that means you need to spend generously 1.5 hours per day writing to be making a living with your writing in five years.

Most writers know the basic agent - hunting drill: assemble a list of prospects, prepare and polish a synopsis, write a dynamite query letter, send out submissions... and wait.

If you're like most writers I know, you have a catch - all bio that you copy and paste into an email every time someone asks you for one.

Most writers I know have bypassed the years or heartache and toil trying to get the attention of one of the big publishing houses.

Although most writers I know, myself included, are somewhat sensitive, you have to develop a thick skin when querying agents or submitting to literary journals.

Most writers know this is part of the process, so I keep at it.

Most writers I know that publish traditionally don't make enough from their books to write full - time.

Not exact matches

Most people probably know Lena Dunham as the creator, writer, and star of Girls, the HBO comedy series that is loosely based on her life as a twenty - something in New York City.

Most writers spend countless hours brainstorming characters and plot, and they even write page after page that they know they'll never include in the book.

You can't - one of the most important traits of an engaging writer is that they know exactly who it is they're writing for; they know how to tailor their language to their audience.

I am happy that the writer had the choices that she did... She is also free to decide whether or not she is a Catholic... She however, took an available medication for a health problem... most Catholic facilities recognize such health problems and allow for that treatment... I am completly puzzled, though, that she would not want other Catholics to be able to choose differently than she did... for those people who wish to use contraceptive services and medication, options are open to them... I am not Catholic, did not grow up in a faith based family, and don't know whether a God exists or not... However, to leave a relgious group with no option but to contradict its own tenets is an attempt by those who don't believe in those tenents to mock them, certainly, but more to erode them... this seems the aim of many and when those folks operate from inside the government... that intrusion is an overreach of the govenrment...

~ G.K. Chesterton, (May 29, 1874 — June 14, 1936) a prolific English writer also known as the «Apostle of Common Sense» who convertd to Catholicism after being a Unitarian most of his life.

Buckley was never a professional Catholic, in the sense of someone who made his living from the fact of his faith, and his standing as a Catholic commentator may have declined when, in 1961, National Review responded to John XXIII's encyclical on Christianity and social progress, Mater et Magistra, with an unsigned quip: «Mater si, Magistra no» (though most reports now ascribe it to a hotshot young writer at the magazine named Garry Wills.)

In other words with all the things going on in the world this long winded ambiguous rant about the religious beliefs of a horror writer whose name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade is being presented as the most important information people need to know at this particular time.

To many he is known as one of the most courageous opponents of the bloody war in Indo - China, to others he is known as a leader in the civil - rights movement, yet to others he is known as a popular writer and speaker, and to yet others he is an enterprising young politician who will someday hold political office.

These two unfinished works both contravene Vita nuova's celebration of Beatrice as the most valuable teacher of a fully charitable love that the writer could know.

For purposes of classification, therefore, it would perhaps be most accurate to think of Davies as a writer of Christian apocrypha: a novelist who finds himself uncomfortably restrained by the canon of Christian thought, but who is not, on the other hand, a heretic; a self - proclaimed moralist who holds that while we reap what we sow, it is often difficult to know the nature of the seed or the outcome of the harvest.

More significant, most young writers no longer see their religion as a core identity — in spiritual or aesthetic terms.

Fanny Crosby one of the most prolific hymn writers was blind, yet in my opinion she knew more about sight than many people.

To their credit, they also highlighted some of the most scathing responses, including this from Jimmy Kimmel Live writer Bess Kalb: «You know who had nice manners?

I decided that it was because I wrote about technology and most American fine writers know nothing about technology.

As one reader posted on the on «line bookstore, Amazon.com, «Ms. Walker is truly one of the most daring writers of the twentieth century... [but] I found the details of the lesbian lovemaking to be more than I ever wanted to know about lesbian relationships» and the assumption that my dead relatives spy on me in my bed quite revolting.

«At precisely those points of urgent need... Paul is most conscious that he is writing as one authorized, by the apostolic call he had received from Jesus Christ, and in the power of the Spirit, to bring life and order to the church by his words... This is not to say that the writers of the New Testament specifically envisaged a time when their books would be collected together and form something like what we now know as the cannon.

Considering most Americans don't know the Difference between an Arab Muslim and an Indian Hindu... I'd say this writer should stop whining and let time take it's course....

What do the following authors all have in common — Jean Paul Sartre, Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Victor Hugo, Jean - Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, David Hume, René Descartes, Francis Bacon, John Milton, John Locke, and Blaise Pascal: (a) They are among the most gifted writers the World has known; (b) They concentrated on opposing dogma and opening the human mind and spirit to the wonders of free thought and intellectual freedom; (c) They were intimidated by the Catholic Church and put on the Church's list of prohibited authors; or (d) All of the above.

Most times, it may be just practicing what you know and doing it day after day, month after month, year after year, like I do with writing this blog twice a week, until I am ready to be a writer.

What was a food writer going to do when she could no longer eat most items on restaurant menus?

This writer is clearly an AKB... but bro let me tell you... since the turn of the year Arsene knows nothing... Is it my fault they cant beat Hull or Man U or Stoke Or Soton This team is unreliable and annoying to watch most times... Arsene jst need to accept this and promise they will do better rather than jst saying stupid stuffs at His pressers

I know this isn't a popular opinion here, most of you have wanted Dez gone, but it couldn't be a worse business decision, and as some of the front page writers here have alluded to, NOT a «Dak - Friendly» move at all.

I don't know about the fans never being satisfied the most negative comment I've read on here this week is an article from one of your fellow writers.

I think in college you get sort of insulated, because most of the beat writers are kinda homers, and if you're a really successful player like Baker, you probably haven't been exposed to a lot of critics, but in the NFL that changes no matter who you are.»

Actually the writer is just people like most of the fans, who become more real that know what arsenal is now.

FC Barcelona announce special «tifo» banner for Copa del Rey final FC Barcelona At the presentation of the e-book which takes a take a look at one in all Catalonia's most well - known writers and journalists from trendy occasions and his relationship with the Club, Bartomeu went on to spotlight simply how related in the present day lots of Montalbán's views on the consultant nature of Barça nonetheless are.

You are still the most amazing writer I know.

Writer and poet Jeanette Leblanc once wrote, «A circle of women may just be the most powerful force known to humanity.

Perhaps the most robust conversation this time around took place Monday in response to a tweet by Washington Post writer Philip Bump, who noted that no one seems to know what «upstate» means, and then solicited comments on whether western New York counts.

Chris Collins is well known in the most populated parts of the congressional district as former Erie County executive while David Bellavia is from the more rural parts of the district where he's best known as a combat soldier and writer.

What some writers of rejoinders do not know is that there is a tendency in our part of the world for people to believe the first account and to consider the second as a cover - up which it really is for most of the time.

Ortiz is known as one of the Legislature's most prolific bill writers.

So my job is going to be to conceptualize design, launch and then run a network of independent bloggers who are going to be blogging under the banner of Scientific American alongside with Scientific American writers and editors and correspondents, which adds another dimension, because most of those people are scientists or, you know, some of them are, you know tenured, some of them are grad students.

Despite being the most influential science writer in the world, Asimov is best known for his fiction, particularly his «Foundation» novels, written during the 1950s, and his novels about «positronic robots».

«We can conclude that ferric citrate and ferric EDTA might be carcinogenic, as they both increase the formation of amphiregulin, a known cancer marker most often associated with long - term cancer with poor prognosis,» says Nathalie Scheers, Assistant Professor at Chalmers University of Technology, and lead writer on the study.

If we compare five of the most important creationist writers on humans origins (Gish, Lubenow, Bowden, Cuozzo and Mehlert), no two of them agree on how to classify some of the most well - known fossils.

No matter how hard all of the most famous writers in the Paleo and Primal world try to be as specific as possible, in their classification of foods as either «Paleo» or «not - Paleo ``, there are always some that slip through the cracks.

But in her spare time, Packnett also manages to be both a writer and activist and is one of the Black Lives Matter movement's most well - known faces, thanks to her work coordinating the Ferguson protests and cofounding the police reform effort Campaign Zero.

Here is the bottom line... Foreign Ladies wants your money... most of the letters you receive are not written by your «girlfriend» but by a staff of writers they have... they know that you will o «open» everything, so they send you «nice, short notes» and you will not find out they your «girlfriend» did not write the majority of letters you receive from h...

Their fabricated stories occasionally dissolve into something much more honest; Jack, perhaps the most emotional of the brothers, is a short story writer, with suspiciously familiar plot points and characters he insists are fictitious (from the short, Hotel Chevalier, which accompanies the film at the festival, we know this is not true).