Sentences with phrase «great writers if»

You are missing some great fiction by a lot of great writers if you aren't reading Fiction River.

He could have been a great writer if he had not found another occupation.

Not exact matches

I experienced this from the other side during the two years I spent at Conde Nast Portfolio, when the great Graydon Carter made it his mission to render Vanity Fair's new sister title irrelevant by publishing the best longform business journalism in town, even if that meant hiring away Portfolio's writers, like Michael Lewis.

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If there is any proposition upon which great minds have agreed throughout history, from Plato to Einstein and Whitehead, from Zoroaster, Ikhnaton, Moses, Isaiah, Jesus, Paul, the authors of the Vedic hymns, Confucius, Lao Tse, to many recent Indian and Japanese writers, it is that human life is not adequately interpretable in merely human terms.

But the only thing that each of us can and should do is what we each must do ultimately alone, if we have vocations to be writers: Go off and write out of the very fullness of human experience about the very fullness of human experience and hope to find and affect contemporary readers and the greater world, and in the meantime leave the distracting and finally pointless diagnoses of who were the Catholic writers, and how much, and how well, how little, how importantly, to the critics and scholars.

If you are able to locate a delicious dry vermouth like Dolin or Noilly Prat at your local shop, you'll soon see what led Bernard DeVoto, our greatest writer on cocktails, to say of the martini:

Contrast this with Nabokov: Even if he did claim that «aesthetic bliss» was his only goal, he was a great writer precisely because he was able to convey all the ambivalence and guilt humans usually feel when they do something morally questionable.

Of course, people on the left can be morally arrogant, but it would have helped if he had offered some specific evidence rather than simply the fact that those writers had argued on moral terms for a stronger presumption against war or a greater redistributive role for the state.

What is needed by the ordinary student, it seems to the writer, is a single volume which will provide an adequate, if not an exhaustive, discussion of the great sacred literatures in non-technical language, so that he may better understand and appreciate what the anthologies so generously provide him.

In a story headlined MOHAMED BRINGS A MOLEHILL TO THE DERBY, one newspaper writer suggested that if Great Redeemer did anything to compromise Spectacular Bid's chances for victory — such as accidentally swerving into him out of the gate — «then Dr. J.A. Mohamed ought to be horsewhipped.»

people are going on about the number of goals he scored or lack of them more precisely but morata for the majority of the season was used as an impact player / sub, also like the writer mentioned as both RM&JUVE he was overshadowed by great players / stars so if if he were to sign for us knowing that he is the 1st choice striker he could flourish and surprise us all!!

@leo will be in his element with all the transfer rumours kicking about over the wknd we will see if can post a record amount of rumors before deadline day see if he can set a club record and that is a challenge to all the others @geoff highbury ghost writer and whoever gets the most right in there comments get a write up artical for there great services rendered in the effort of rumor mongering and all there comments for one day are all thumbs up guaranteed by the admin of just arsenal LOL

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If they were worried about making a mistake they simply rubbed off the chalk and started again, making it a great, low - pressure mark making material for beginner writers!

Finally, I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but if anyone needs convincing that pink slime is some really bad stuff, writer Tom Philpott had a great piece about it yesterday on Mother Jones.

This blog is a compilation of various authors who are both mothers and writers, so it's a great spot to stop if you're looking for different viewpoints in one place.

Even fewer of these women, if any at all, have been admitted to the pantheon of «great thinkers» — that class of writer whose work is the focus of worldwide attention and debate.

Writer Dan Gillmor writes in the UK newspaper The Guardian, wondering if comedian Roseanne Barr, now contending for the Green Party's presidential nomination, will help to raise the profile of the Green Party of the United States, which struggles a great deal compared to its European counterparts.

If our ability to invent new bodies and worlds could become a form of expression as deep as language or music, then it ought to be possible for morphing people to convey ideas and feelings just as deeply as great writers or musicians do (or, for that matter, as great lovers or great parents do).

There are plenty of people who are positive and nice who have bad and unfortunate things happen to them and there are negative complaining people who always have great luck so yeah not sure if I buy in to The Secret, though it earned it's writers and publishers a lot of money.

Besides, as the great Lebanese writer Khalil Gibran said on several occasions, «if you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours.

If you aren't a great writer, have friends help you write it.

That One Dozens of writers are trying to help daters find great relationships if we find The ONE!

Imagine meeting someone for the first time and tells them a little about yourself - this could be a great tactic for finding the right words, especially if you have a business profile writer's block.

If the goal of the Darwin's great - great - grandson, Randal Keynes, the author of Annie's Box, along with the writers and director of «Creation» was to humanize Darwin and bury the iconic image of the stoic bearded man who walked with a cane and was slightly hunched over in his later years, then they brilliantly accomplished what they set out to do.

At Comic - Con this past weekend, co - writer / director Shane Black stated that they were halfway through filming, and «If we don't fuck up the rest, it's going to be great!»

The film plays as if Payne and Taylor had a great idea for a first act, then were hit by writer's block and simply pulled a bunch of other ideas out of a hat.

To the present writer, Arkadin is clearly the better film, but The Stranger is nonetheless, at the very least, a fascinating curio, and if it's a minor film (if...), then it's the sort of minor film that only a really major talent could make, and an excellent example of what the Cahiers du Cinéma critics meant about the failures of the great being better films than the best work of lesser talents.

Writer - director Stephen Gaghan picked up an Oscar two years previously for penning the Traffic screenplay, but if this is a more accurate representation of his talents then that award is starting to look like a whopping great miscalculation on the Academy's part.

If you are one who enjoys these uplifting stories about overcoming great obstacles in order to make the world a better place, even if the roads traveled by the filmmakers are predictable and somewhat trite, you'll most likely find great value in viewing Freedom Writers as informative, entertaining, and thought - provokinIf you are one who enjoys these uplifting stories about overcoming great obstacles in order to make the world a better place, even if the roads traveled by the filmmakers are predictable and somewhat trite, you'll most likely find great value in viewing Freedom Writers as informative, entertaining, and thought - provokinif the roads traveled by the filmmakers are predictable and somewhat trite, you'll most likely find great value in viewing Freedom Writers as informative, entertaining, and thought - provoking.

Actress and filmmaker Ashley Bell is our avatar onscreen, and (with producer - writer - editor - cinematographer John Michael McCarthy III and director of photography - executive producer Roddy Tabatabai) she manages to make us feel as if we're experiencing a great adventure alongside her in real time.

If Fiennes and Paltrow's charming lead turns as, respectively, the Bard and Lady Viola, the woman who melts away his writer's block and inspires Romeo and Juliet, is the lifeblood of this film, then its vigorous body is the deliciously witty script by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, full of great lines (most delivered by Judi Dench's Queen Elizabeth) and peppered with intelligent details (sly allusions to Shakespeare's Twelfth Night).

But perhaps it is this very concern with the poetics of film rather than its aesthetics (if we choose to play with words) that leaves Bordwell an important writer on film but often less than a great one.

If most movies lie to us or ply us with wish - fulfillment fantasies (we are handsome, good and victorious), the movies of German writer - director Michael Haneke do the opposite: they lay bare, in the starkest way, our greatest fears: We are not safe («Funny Games»), we are not good («The White Ribbon»), we have no privacy («Caché»).

Its as if the writers had come up with a great premise but then did nt know what to do with it, so they concocted some nonsense resolution that is a flat out cheat and essentially pisses on all the good the film had been before.

The quest to be the best is a familiar film story, but if director - writer Chazelle has achieved anything here, it's a deeply and richly different take on that journey — not only examining the cost of struggle but the reward of it, showing both what it takes to be great and what happens when you don't have it.

It is true that great artists, engineers, writers and scientists often say that their interest was focused right from early childhood, just as if they were already soaked in the subject from birth.

It was a big hit with the handful of writers, and I mentioned to Gilles that it would be great if Chrysler built and sold his car.

So many authors (sadly) think it's all about the art and craft of writing, that if I'm just a «great writer,» the books will sell.

It's a great place to get started, particularly if you have a network of authors and fellow writers who can provide honest feedback.

No author is so great a writer that they do not need to be edited if for no other reason than the writer knows what it is supposed to say, so therefore may not catch mistakes.

«If writers want to write about it, that's great for them, because plenty of people love reading about it.»

«The trick is that if you have an author that is struggling to find that audience, to find that readership — Alan [Russell] is a perfect example, because he always got wonderful reviews, is a fantastic writer, still has a great relationship with his former editor at St. Martins, but there was always a struggle to find that readership.

If you want to learn about writing, if you want to meet writers and agents and publishers and have a great time, this is the conference for yoIf you want to learn about writing, if you want to meet writers and agents and publishers and have a great time, this is the conference for yoif you want to meet writers and agents and publishers and have a great time, this is the conference for you.

If you'd rather have some of this info in one place, I do have a book called How to be a Writer in the E-Age that has all this and more — plus lots of great tips from bestselling author Catherine Ryan Hyde.

The Greater Los Angeles Writers Society (GLAWS) is a great example of a local writers group that can provide excellent support if you live in Southern CaliWriters Society (GLAWS) is a great example of a local writers group that can provide excellent support if you live in Southern Caliwriters group that can provide excellent support if you live in Southern California.

Having work published by magazines like this is a great way to gain confidence and exposure as a writer, whichever form you usually write in, so if you've not yet tried it, why not give it a go?

One question, though, I have made it clear that I consider there to be good (if not great) writers in the self - pub world — do you assert that a person has to debase and whore themselves to get anywhere in the tradpub world in absolute terms?