Sentences with phrase «literary writers like»

I strongly suggest that literary writers like you consider finding a small, quality niche press.

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Writers, how do you honor God with your work without making him sound like some kind of cosmic literary agent?

Yet like the slight things left by other major writers, these brief prayers and ruminations cast fresh light on O'Connor's literary vision as it was just beginning to develop.

And so do the numerous Muslim - born writers, artists, and musicians who spend their lives in hiding for fear of murder from their erstwhile co-religionists for «crimes» like «apostasy» and literary criticism.

Gioia's latest essay, «The Catholic Writer Today,» published in the December 2013 issue of First Things, bears a striking resemblance to his Atlantic essay on poetry: Like its predecessor, it takes in a wide sweep of literary history, pointedly details a deplorable situation — «Catholicism currently enjoys almost no positive presence in the American fine arts» — and seeks to rally those who care to action.

Moreover, given the rise of memoir as a literary genre in recent decades, I would see Gioia's list and raise him a series of nonfiction writers whose work is shot through with a profoundly Catholic sensibility — writers like Richard Rodriguez, Annie Dillard, Patricia Hampl, Thomas Lynch, and Barry Lopez.

Strong takes the audience through some early aspects of the writer's biography, like his romance with Eugene O'Neill's daughter Oona (Zoey Deutch) and his early rejections from The New Yorker, but Hoult plays Salinger as a typically frustrated young man, trying to make a creative breakthrough and angry at how closed - off New York's literary establishment seems.

Despite its literary origins, the film feels a bit like a writer tossed a few darts at a board labeled with aging action stars and various terrorist groups and just decided to make it work.

The first is that studio executives and / or director and writers obviously think that after a generation of the violence in video games and blockbuster movies, the old literary institutions like curiosity, innocence, mystery and wonder simply aren't enough to entertain us anymore.

I wonder, though, how often a self - published writer has a day like my friend Jay had today — and he knows we're going to work with him to make certain his finest literary days are still ahead of him.

, Shriver goes on to admit that she sometimes has trouble including female writers when asked to name her favorites, in part because «The big names in the literary pantheon are repeated over and over again... [I] n the glare of a spotlight and frantic to remember any author's name at all, even women like me are going to remember Philip Roth — just as, asked to name a soft drink, I'm going to remember Coca - Cola.

Tinti is a writer gifted beyond her years, both literary in her perceptions — «the sailboat passed a cargo ship the length of an aircraft carrier, stretching across the surface like a giant guarding the edge of the world» — and possessing a thoroughgoing comprehension of the human condition, our sometimes desperate search for love and family, the rage we often feel as we stumble through our ignorance and past our fear to confront our mortality.

Seems like another published work is not quite as snobbish as the «writer» of said article: Merrium - Webster Dictionary's definition of an author is «a writer of a literary work such as a book».

Authors have divided themselves into two camps, the making a living wage by self publishing crowd of which I belong, and the gatekeepers like James Patterson and Scott Turow who have made a shitload of money with traditional publishers who have eleveated them to a position of being «overlords» of the literary world and encouraging greedy publishing houses to bar the door to new aspiring writers who are not represented by agents.

«AgentQuery.com offers one of the largest searchable databases of literary agents on the web — a treasure trove of reputable, established literary agents seeking writers just like you...»

That is why I think websites like Wattpad are so important for struggling writers to find their voices amongst the deafening noise of major publishers and literary agents who are so focussed on risk aversion and unwilling to give talented independent authors a chance.

In fact, I like it so much that I didn't get upset once when an author decided he would ask a literary agent (yours truly) a question in the men's room at a writers» conference.

The essence of the Humble Bundle campaign with Harpercollins is that customers can pay what they want for a collection of digital literary works from bestselling authors, like Neil Gaiman and James Rollins, while helping support the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America Emergency Medical Fund, a non-profit organization for authors of science fiction and related genres, and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, dedicated to the protection of the First Amendment rights of the comics art form and its community.

Like Katniss, she's a natural, lighting from thriller to bodice ripper to fantasy in the space of a few chapters, churning out a powerful, innovative oeuvre without making a big deal about it... She's a literary fusioneer, that rare writer who is all things to all readers.

Brilliant writers like Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Ursula Le Guin have amassed so many literary rejection letters they could build a bonfire and keep a lot of us warm for a week.

Tony Welch: Seriously though I have befriended a seriously accomplished tv writer and producer who really liked my pilot script idea but it was in a literary format.

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Would anyone (like literary agents, editors, family, or friends) be interested in going to your writer website?

Clare — Like almost everything else, how a writer views traditional literary gatekeepers depends on his / her experience with them.

Along with having an extensive library of interviews and how - to articles, Writers Digest is a source of valuable industry contacts like literary agents and publishing companies.

Some writers with visions of literary grandeur think that they need to come up with thousands upon thousands of words, just like War and Peace or other super long work, to be seen as legit in the eyes of their readers.

There's a trend this year of award - winning writers for young people — like Robin Wasserman, Gayle Forman, and Meg Rosoff — publishing significant literary fiction for an adult audience.

This service is not promoted very well at all, and has literary zero presence at most of the big events that center around publishing, like Book Expo America and Romance Writers of America.

Nigeria is a country fertile with writers, full of wonderful literary figures like Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe, and Ben Okri.

Above all, we must write the very best books we can, whilst remembering one of Elmore Leonard's Golden Rules for writers, especially authors of «literary» fiction: «If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.»

I want to live in a world... where «the reading public» (regardless of the inside - baseball interferences of literary professionals) consumes, likes, and engages with many different kinds of literary nourishment; and where writers, teachers, and critics trust and even expect readers to do so.

A former roving luddite, I've come to learn the hard way over the past decade that if you are not a reputed writer like Pynchon or Salinger and you shun your inner Paris Hilton, you destine yourself to literary obscurity.

Despite all the excitement about self - publishing these days — and I'm a big proponent — many writers still dream of being published by a big house like St. Martin's Press or a prestigious literary publisher like Algonquin or Bloomsbury.

To say there are a lot of literary agents out there is an understatement — almost like saying there are a lot of writers looking for an agent (but not quite).

Like everything in life, you do not need a literary agent, but it is extremely useful to have one working with you, especially if you are a first time writer and looking to secure that elusive book deal.

Even if it's just a loose outline, and even if you're a fiction writer who likes to go with the literary flow, an outline can be a make - or - break thing.

Author-network.com has resources for writers, including business resources like information on literary agents, publishers, presses, associations, and, reviewers.

Although I may be particularly outspoken about voicemail, you know there are others out there who agree — like some of the journalists we pitch, for example (or literary agents receiving hundreds of queries from writers).

Pera, who has worked with a range of legendary writers ranging from Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Enrique Krauze, earlier told Publishing Perspectives that the major difference between publishing operations in Spain and in Latin America is the lack of a culture of literary agents, particularly in Mexico, where, in what sounds like a throwback to a romantic, idealistic past, writers send their manuscripts directly to publishers, who then sift through the slush pile.

For those like myself who know little about eBooks, Mr Baker takes all the strain out of the process Robert Chesshyre, journalist, writer and literary executor

If we don't maintain other avenues for establishing a literary reputation and finding some kind of readership — things like traditional publishers and reviewing, where the writer could just be a writer and not have to wear the flak hat, the salesman hat, the editor hat, the publisher hat — if we don't maintain those, then we hand over the literary world to the personality types who are, I would say, less suited for the kind of work I care about.

While some, like talk - show host Steve «I don't really care for slavery» Harvey, prefer to forget the painful past, there's a growing literary trend in which writers are crafting an alternate past with the hope of shaping a better future.

It will be a celebration like no other, ackowledging the immense achievement that the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival has made to global literary profile of Indonesia.

The collage - like painting Burroughs in Tangiers, constructs a space for the Beat Generation writer to work — a manic space, like the literary figure himself.

The group around founder André Breton grew constantly since its inception, including many writers and literary figures, film and video makers, and others like painters Joan Mirò and Yves Tanguy, and sculptors Alberto Giacometti and Meret Oppenheim.

From the smallest literary magazines to magazines like the New Yorker, freelance writers often make up the bulk of the content for each issue.