Sentences with phrase «know an author intimately»

Here and Now: Letters 2008 - 2011 by Paul Auster & J.M. CoetzeeViking • $ 27.95 • ISBN 9780670026661On sale March 11, 2013If you truly want to know an author intimately, you must read their letters.

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Its author lives in another world than the Palestine of Jesus» days — one can scarcely believe that he ever saw Palestine, or knew Judaism and its sacred Scriptures intimately and sympathetically.

And yet no work was ever more clearly addressed to a definite community by an author who knew intimately and loved passionately those to whom he wrote.

Not just as a spouse who knows him intimately, but as a deft political mind in her own right: a feminist activist who understands grass - roots organizing, a liberal champion of the working class and an experienced author who has written speeches for leading New York officials.

Some might say my choice of e-book was odd, because I happened to know the author's work intimately: I downloaded and paid for a digital version of my own book Mind Wide Open.

First, you know your sales intimately if you're a self - published author.

One criticism that particularly interested me had to do with the intersection of fiction writing and judging, making the point, among others, that authors who write fiction know the lives of their characters intimately and in great detail because they plan them, and it is wrong — presumptuous — for a judge to give the impression by adopting a fiction genre style that he knows a litigant as thoroughly.

The authors know both worlds intimately, and offer a straightforward approach that gets to the heart of patterns of unhelpful interpersonal behavior that ultimately damage significant social bonds.