Sentences with phrase «back old writers»

That continued trend of bringing back old writers, though, only highlights the dated feel of much of this reboot; if you were told that these episodes were written 20 years ago, you'd probably believe it.

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«If you give away hard - won information and knowledge, you'll get something back,» says Holiday, the 27 - year - old writer and marketing pro.

«If I could go back in time, I'd introduce my 22 - year - old self to a quotation by the writer Brian Andreas: «Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life,»» Huffington writes.

Not in the form of some «how to» guide or some «five step» program, but, first and foremost, by way of metaphor: «If the state of contemporary Catholic literary culture can best be conveyed by the image of a crumbling, old, immigrant neighborhood, then let me suggest that it is time for Catholic writers and intellectuals to leave the homogeneous, characterless suburbs of the imagination, and move back to the big city — where we can renovate these remarkable districts which have such grace and personality, such strength and tradition.»

And then, when I thought about my life after school, about how writers must live, how a writer must create, the places where writers go, I thought of New York City walk - ups, of Montreal cobblestones and the longed - for perfecting of my French accent, I thought of London flats, of Paris lofts, I thought of big cities, and crowded streets, old architecture, late nights, I thought of moving back east.

More current versions such as the Jerusalem and NRSV go back to older Greek and Hebrew texts for their translations and give a purer sense of the language and probable intent of the writers.

After winning the season's first major last month for her second straight major and going back - to - back in LPGA Tour events, the 18 - year - old phenom said she was excited to head to Augusta to pick up her golf writers» Player of the Year award.

Ruth Engelthaler is a writer by trade and is in the process of transitioning back into her professional career now that her children are older and her youngest is becoming self - sufficient.

Walliams, who also moonlights as an acclaimed children's writer, is backing plans to make every eight - year - old in England join their local library.

She is also so lucky that you are a writer and that she will have these things to look back on when she is older.

Writer - director - star Michael Rosenbaum indulges in countless old - hat genre tropes in Back In The Day, a tale of an average Joe who goes home for his high - school reunion, pals around with buddies, and tries to rekindle a romance with his ex.

Then there's The Train Robbers, with Budd Boetticher's long - time writer Burt Kennedy taking the hyphenate reins on what washes out as a frickin» godawful artifact of the old western style that wasn't any fresher back when Kennedy was minting classics with Ranown.

Craig (Pat Healy), a struggling writer, has just been laid off from his job as an auto mechanic and owes $ 4,500 in back rent; he'll be evicted in a week (along with his wife and 15 - month - old son) if he can't come up with the full amount, and even that would only buy him a month.

Writer / director Douglas McGrath, who also was behind the entertaining adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma a few years back, dives into the material with wild abandon (as an old English teacher of mine was wont to say).

Early in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, writer / director Rian Johnson's unenviable attempt to out - middle - trilogy The Empire Strikes Back, the film picks up immediately following the last frame of J.J. Abrams» The Force Awakens, with Rey silently offering Luke Skywalker's old lightsaber to him, the one he lost along with a hand in the final moments of - you guessed it - Empire.

Over the course of the past two decades, writer - director David Ayer (Sabotage, End of Watch, Street Kings, Training Day) has specialized in a particular brand of old - school, throw - back masculinity.

Drag Me to Hell Rated PG - 13 for sequences of horror violence, terror, disturbing images and language Available on DVD and Blu - ray Writer / director Sam Raimi (Spiderman / Evil Dead) brings us this tale about a young girl so desperate to become an assistant manager at her bank that she turns down an old woman who requests some more time to pay back her loan.

Writer - director Sara Colangelo premiered her feature debut «Little Accidents» at Sundance back in 2014, and now she returns to the festival with her adaptation of Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid's drama, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as a restless Staten Island teacher who takes special interest a five - year - old student's poetry.

And for any whose heads are not yet spinning, writer - director Johnson throws in another loop or two: In the future, Old Joe's wife was killed by a mysterious, Keyser - Soze - like crime lord called the Rainmaker; now that he's back in the past, Old Joe is determined to find this villain as a boy, and snuff him out before he can grow into deadly manhood.

Most indie writers just take a few old short stories, maybe a novel or two, toss them up on Kindle and sit back and watch the numbers every day.

Even back then, the kind of books I was intending to write were fetching so little in advances that I would have done better selling a couple - to - four articles at my old feature rate (we're talking 2500 word features, too — so, I'd make more for less work writing and selling four of those as WFH or open license pubs than I would for writing an 80k word reference book for writers, for example).

The Romance Writer's Profile: The group of some 200 romance writers that I met at the conference have had or still have traditional publishing deals, but many are also publishing independently as the rights on their older titles revert back to them.

James Scott Bell: Well, when I look back at the successful writers under the old system, and especially those old pulp writers and the paperback writers of the»50s and»60s, what it came down to was you can't sell what isn't written, and you have to produce the words.

It would make the back catalog worthless because unless you offer to cut your asking price dramatically, the «used» digital version would outsell even the altered versions... plus that writers would have to continuously focus on adding material to older works, would diminish their capacity for creating new work.

A new feature called Kindle Serials will bring back the old trend of serialized publishing: Fiction writers will be able to offer serialized offerings, with readers paying once and having all subsequent installments delivered to their device.

With hundreds of articles in the back catalogue and an associated top - notch premium service, Where Writers Win is a great place to find new ideas and remember old ones that you just plain forgot.

Way back in the days of old, when all writers knew what SASE meant (self - addressed stamped envelope), when writers submitted to agencies with paper letters and postage, rejection came in the form of a mailing addressed by one's own hand.

«On Amazon.co.uk, self - published works regularly show up in the top 100 bestselling books list, which this month includes The Girl Who Never Came Back by Amy Cross, a 30 - year - old self - published writer of paranormal and fantasy, dystopia and erotica; and The One You Love by Paul Pilkington, the first in his Emma Holden suspense mystery trilogy.

Getting the balance between discovering new destinations and going back to old favourites can be a tricky one as a travel writer — or even just a regular travel enthusiast.

Drew Karpyshyn, the accomplished writer known for his work on titles like Baldur's Gate II, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Jade Empire, the first two Mass Effect games and Star Wars: The Old Republic, came back to Bioware a couple years ago after leaving the company in 2012 to write a novel trilogy.

These lamentations by Rubinstein and Schjeldahl — and there are many examples by other writers I could have given — about painting's fallen status, its descent from Olympian greatness, remind me of people who preface everything with, «back in the good old days» or prattle on about how «you can't paint like Rubens» anymore, as if that is what the world needed most.

With institutional backing from Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, and with help from leaders at more than 75 news organizations including The Economist and The Washington Post, the 58 - year - old science writer has led the charge in crafting a set of transparency standards for outlets to implement.

my MacBook pro is 9 years old and zero trouble it has a 2.66 G processor 4 G memory - i am writer so plenty space for me Ive spent $ 100 total - had it cleaned up as it slowed down over years, i had lot of crap on it, and now its back to great battery last 7 - 9 hours a bargin