Sentences with phrase «better than writers»

They have inside contacts with specific editors and know better than writers what editor or publisher would be most likely to buy a particular work.
Last question: are you finding that authors who are also traditionally published (like Barbara and Gemma) are selling much better than writers who are only self - pubbed?
But then they started to believe their own hype, they started to actually believe that they knew better than writers what writers needed.
When an author goes the traditional publishing route the publisher presumes to be the authority and knows better than the writer and assumes creative control of the writers intellectual property.

Not exact matches

Don't be too quick to commit, but if you're happy with the work being delivered, then it will be better to work with those who can supply consistent and predictable results than to try to find new writers to fit a mold.
Make sure your SEO writer has these characteristics or your new content could do more harm than good.
Before becoming one of the world's best - known comic strip writers and authors, Scott Adams spent more than a decade in the corporate world, moving into management after being held at gunpoint twice while working as a teller.
I liked the fact that people came together and batted around ideas, and then, as an editor, you would look for the perfect writer for it, somebody who could make it better than you imagined, then ultimately putting an issue together was about getting the right mix and the right tone.
Although he did recover financially, Twain was always a much better writer than he was an entrepreneur and investor.
Who better to learn from than actual published authors, writers, and editors?
For more than 36 years we've been doing the in - depth research... sending our writers and editors to every corner of the country to uncover the very best destinations for retiring, starting a business, raising a family, and more.
In the financial blogosphere, I can think of no one who follows that adage better than Jason Fieber, the writer at the website www.dividendmantra.com.
If you have a talent for the written word, what better way to work from the comfort in your own home and have extremely flexible hours than to become a freelance writer.
A group of more than sixty Catholic theologians and clergy, including some well - known traditionalist writers and scholars, have signed a document, addressed to Pope Francis and recently released to the public, alleging that the pope has promoted heresy through his statements regarding the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Amoris laetitia.
Seriously, you may as well tell the writer of Superman that Superman was not faster than a speeding bullet or that Clark Kent was not a mild mannered reporter but a perv with an obsession for Lois Lane.
To me no biblical writer demonstrates this dichotomy better than Paul, who, as a result, can seem very contradictory at times.
The Austrian mystic, Baron von Hügel, understood spiritual dryness better than most religious writers have, and he gives some graphic illustrations as to what to do about it.
I think the writers of the bible understood, better than we sometimes do, that there are too many factors involved in someone's poverty or prosperity to simply chalk it up to effort or the...
It just seems to me that as a writer / researcher who clearly knows better, it is really your job to attack, debunk and tear these assinine arguments about Obama's religious convictions to pieces rather than giving them some kind of legitimacy.
There is no need to repeat the common sense on these matters that has been said by many writers far better than I could say it.
Paul, who makes the contrast more often than does any other writer, is very clear that the body is good in itself — so good that it is a temple of the Holy Spirit.
As a successful professional editor she knew (and only a few professionals do not know) better than to try to change the style of an already good writer into someone else's style, for example, the editor's, or to make it accord with a rule open to occasional reasonable exceptions.
Not only is the widespread emphasis on winning over others less than Christian, argues the writer, but even the concept of «doing one's best» is easily perverted into workaholism and pride.
The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.
Perhaps the best argument against a super-intelligent agent creating the universe is that moderately - intelligent science fiction writers often dream up universes that are way cooler and often even «work» better than the reality we all experience.
His writing is fantastic too, even if his quote - studded posts are often too long to maintain the non-specialist's interest (so says the writer of 3,000 - word posts about why The Bangles were better in 1983 than in 1987!).
Few fiction writers better captured postwar American suburbia than Cheever, with discontent bubbling beneath the grassy lawns.
Yes, we are called to grow and mature, and yes, our convictions and denominational affiliations will likely change, but I've found I'm a better writer — and a better person — when I'm more focused on outgrowing the old me than I am on outgrowing other people in my community.
Rollins writes, «The sheer amount of ideological conflicts playing out within the text hints at the fact that the writers were writing about a reality that could not be reduced to one description, a reality that was testified to better in the clash of perspectives than in the development of a single, finely honed one.»
Fourth, Bonhoeffer's situational ethic is better than some contemporary writers, but there are still questions to be asked.
One often finds that the Fathers of the early years of the Church are more direct and better at this than modern writers.
The best writers produce far more content than ever gets shared.
So nobody's better situated than ME to assess objectively the merits of modern French Catholic writers.
Here we see unknown writers in the hills of ancient Judah, seated in simple homes that from the point of view of our present - day luxury might be regarded as little better than hovels, surrounded with furnishings more bare and austere than those of a medieval monastery, equipped with simple reed pens and rolls of papyrus, or perhaps with broken sherds of old pots, as they slowly indite in awkward, ancient Hebrew characters, words that have run like fire and are potent at this distant day.
Yes, It's amazing that god made Tolkien a so much better writer than himself (Tolkien's books hang a bit better together than god's books too)
I am more than disappointed that the Tony Jones» support team is unable to appreciate what's good about the U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment and the rights they use all of the time as pastors / speakers / bloggers / writers and authors but don't want anyone else to have!
11 of the Ancient Christian Writers Series (hereafter noted as PC) is better than the 1894 translation by James Barmby (hereafter noted as BPR) for the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers (NPNF), though it, too, remains seriously deficient.
All the best spiritual writers of the Church place the sacraments at the top of the list of a foundation for the contemplative way, but few of us build higher on this rock than we find convenient.
The bible is a book of myths and fables... It just has had better promoters, who found it useful for their purpose, than Aesop or any of the other fiction writers of the past...
I found in Ford far more than I had hoped for: a writer who, by his own account, had «apprenticed» himself to America; whose stories and characters so spring from their landscapes and physical situations as to personify the spirit of the motels, roadside bars, lakes and highways where we encounter them; and who may well be, as his friend Raymond Carver (who died last summer) said, «sentence for sentence... the best writer at work in this country today.»
All the great spiritual writers have known this, but few in the Church's history understood it better, experienced it more deeply, and wrote about it with more insight than John Cassian, the monk from southern Gaul who lived in the early part of the fifth century.
Certain writers are better than others — read everything Tony Woodlief writes — and it can occasionally be a little too predictable in its kind thoughtfulness.
It is better to live «in a desert land» or even «on the roof of a house» than to live with a contentious woman, say the writers of the Proverbs.
Anne Rice, as a fantasy writer, should know better than anyone where all religious texts come from... the imaginations of the authors.
Properly interpreted, these writers can help us live better than we might live without them.
Comic books do this all the time (although to be fair, comic books have much better writers than the Bible did), and all you have to do is blame it on a time warp or another fictional character like Doctor Doom or Satan.
(And this writer is convinced that the Birthday Cake is better than dairy ice cream.
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
Rather than rightfully punish the act and counsel the striker, these entities and a handful of writers supported him on the basis that he's good at putting the ball in the back of the net.
If you think you can do better then YOU send in an article, but don't diss the writers that are trying harder than you.....
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