Sentences with phrase «failed writer»

I self published, as you say, not because it was the option of last resort, the option for failed writers, or an option marked by stigma and shame.

But there are times when words fail a writer.

Be prepared to face criticism from failed writers (reviewers) who can't even manage a page a day, let alone more.

It's that obsession for the «Hitchcock blonde» that leads to the discovery of a few sticky head shots in Hitch's den, and for the everlasting resentment of mousy wife Alma (not - mousy Helen Mirren), who decides to have her own fling with failed writer Whitfield Cook (Danny Huston)-- one of several credited writers on Hitchcock's Stage Fright and Strangers on a Train, though Hitchcock doesn't mention that.

Blonde bombshell divides friends, failed writer provides hacky narration, crime unfolds exactly like you think it will.

Every character bleeds and causes bleeding, even Jeff Daniels's tyrant, failed writer Bernard Berkman.

Brick and mortar publishers are difficult to approach, self publishing fails the writers in many ways, but the On - demand publishers is a different sort.

Ten years ago, the book publishing industry looked quite a bit different than it does today: Print books controlled 99.5 % of the market; ebooks accounted for about 1/2 of 1 % If a writer wanted to get their book into bookstores where readers discover and purchase books, they needed a traditional publishing deal because publishers controlled access to retail distribution Few writers wanted to self - publish; it was considered the option of last resort for failed writers

Above all else, though, he's an egotistical prick and a misanthrope, someone who spends the first ten minutes of the movie berating an ex-girlfriend for being late to a meeting and an ex-friend for being a failed writer who didn't want it enough (that friend, by the way, is in a wheelchair), and he only gets worse as the film goes on.

Caught up in her web are three men: Keith (Sturgess), a Cockney lowlife with a nearly indecipherable accent; Guy (James), a bored posh asshole; and Samson Young (Thornton), a failed writer dying of something or other and crashing in his more successful frenemy's flat.

In the film, Cooper plays a failed writer (Cooper) who stumbles on a -LSB-...]

Elijah Wood plays Clint, a failed writer earning some cash by teaching classes at the elementary school he went to as kid.

She goes at the behest of her daughter, Sally (Naomi Watts), a gallery assistant stuck in a failing marriage with a failing writer, Roy (Josh Brolin).

Far to many so - called editors these days are nothing more than failed writers.

So, I maybe can say, I'm not a failed writer anymore.

That system was pretty clear for most, but wow did it fail writers with very unusual voices or stories that did not fit into certain genres.

Back then, every book was considered a vanity publication, every author a failed writer.

At the same time I do not believe that, if we had to make a choice between selling more books and being a good person, we would be morally compelled to become another failed writer.

Contrary to popular belief, blogging is not just for failed writers, aspiring journalists and whiney teenagers.