Sentences with phrase «n't call yourself a writer»

«If you've ever suffered from Writer's Doubt — and if you haven't, don't call yourself a writer — you'll resonate with every paragraph.»

In his introduction to the anthology The Poets of the New York School (1969), Myers wrote: «I have not called these writers «The New York School of Poets», but have deliberately refrained from so defining them because, properly speaking, they do not constitute a «school of poets» in the old - fashioned sense.»

Not exact matches

Holiday rightfully calls out the page - view - hungry game of blogging in which writers are forced to churn out a dozen attention - grabbing posts a day regardless of whether or not anything truly attention - grabbing is happening.

EASTWOOD: And so I... Just through that I got story ideas and I called up Paul Haggis and I said, you know, I can't afford you Paul as a writer but I said do you have any students?

His first book, The End of Economic Man (1939) prompted Winston Churchill to call Drucker «one of those writers to whom almost anything can be forgiven because he not only has a mind of his own, but has the gift of starting other minds along a stimulating line of thought.»

I wanted to be a writer, but didn't have a single published clip to call my own.

Professional writers might not be able to get away with this one with all editors and for all audiences (and anyway, it's their job to find ways around the trouble), but for your average email or work memo, go ahead and write «Tell your friend they can call me,» when you don't know the gender of the friend.

I'm a content writer, I should be able to focus on creating content and only call people for interviews, not for the basic info the other staff hired for that purpose are supposed to collect.

The prominent writer Vasily Rozanov — who not only wrote an important book on Dostoevsky but also married Dostoevsky's former mistress for what one critic has called «complex psycho - sexual reasons» — discovered in Rasputin's debauchery the seeds of a new gospel rehabilitating the flesh.

His being Catholic as a writer has to do «not so much with explicit faith or transmitting an explicit faith in my writings as it has to do with what I would call an anthropology.»

I find that 99 % of those who call this kind of post or writer false prophets are usually the ones who didn't really study or understand the word.

It's simple: You don't get to say what marriage is or is not based upon the bible or the so - called word of god (whatever that is... think about that for a minute... unless you speak 1st century aramaic you have no idea what the original writers of the ficto - mythic texts you now presume as the word of god even means!)

Early Christian writers mention an Elder John of Ephesus, who was a follower of Jesus but was not the apostle of that name, and they sometimes refer to him simply as «the Elder», just as the writer of these letters calls himself.

Writers who call themselves atheists have often surprised me by their reasons for not believing in God.

The writer has lost control and calls attention not to the subject but to the poor writing.

Maybe we've evolved intellectually and no longer believe that God doesn't to people — maybe he never did and the writers of this tome called the bible were trying to gat a Pulitzer.

At least not to the degree that Russell Core, the nature writer called to investigate the wolves plaguing Keelut, stands in for those raised by and to believe in civilization.

«It wasn't what I'd call writer's block, it was more a block of purpose,» he said.

The apparent reckless abandon with which a Muslim leader could call for the death of a writer offends not just our notions of due process or even the boundaries of state jurisdiction but our view of this life as our hallowed destiny.

It is not only that some of the anti-metaphysical theologians, not to speak of the American «death of God» writers (theologians I will not call them, for to do so is to engage in a contradiction in terms), reject any reference to «the transcendent» and hence can hardly talk meaningfully of a «new relation'to it.

In this new book he offers a snapshot of the penetration of what might be called «alien'thinking (though this is not a term Trower himself uses) into twentieth - century Catholic intellectual life, singlingout in particular two writers accorded iconic status over the years, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Karl Rahner.

# Some of us grew up calling them the Heroes of Faith, which is a categorization that the writer of Hebrews does not supply.

Future comments that including demeaning remarks about the writers of the posts or people who comment, or that include name - calling will be deleted, not edited as this one was.

I am a musician and a writer, plus a dabbler in drawing and other artistic «crafty» endeavors so I always interpret things from a deep emotional point of view which hasn't always worked in my favour (at least it didn't in the church I attended) and alienated me from non-artistic people who called me too sensitive and too picky and too obsessive and too emotionally involved with just about everything I did, or tried to do.

I love the way the writer calls us to embrace our identity in Christ, not the approval or opinion of others around us.

Although we know Paul primarily from his letters in the New Testament, he was not called to be a letter writer but rather a preacher of the Gospel, especially to the Gentiles.

In that novel, the great Russian writer shows Ivan, Aloysha, and Dmitri as caught in this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of things.

These writers believed themselves to be inspired by the Spirit and called as teachers, and their writings, argues Wright, «were not simply about the coming of God's Kingdom into all the world; they were, and were designed to be, part of the means whereby that happened... Those who read these writings discovered, from very early on, that the books themselves carried the same power, the same authority in action, that had characterized the initial preaching of the «word.»

Once again, a New Testament writer speaks of celibacy in terms of a gift for those called to it, not a mandate.

«At precisely those points of urgent need... Paul is most conscious that he is writing as one authorized, by the apostolic call he had received from Jesus Christ, and in the power of the Spirit, to bring life and order to the church by his words... This is not to say that the writers of the New Testament specifically envisaged a time when their books would be collected together and form something like what we now know as the cannon.

I am constantly shaking my head at writers and media who seem not to understand the medical facts or science regarding birth control and because of that mislead readers about the truth about birth control and what it does and doesn't do and the truth around so - called religious objections as it applies to the health care law.

Secondly, I have called the paper «Biblical Views of Nature» because I do not believe there is any one view held by the whole range of biblical writers.

«In other words,» says food writer Nancy Harmon Jenkins, «you just can't make any old cheese and call it Roquefort.

It's funny because I'm not a writer — never was, never wanted to be, will probably never call myself that — but yet I write here every single week.

«Writers don't call me long - distance anymore.»

Sadly, it also comes with weird call reversals on players who leave the bag at second for 1 / 16th of a second, but that's a story for another day and writer because I don't feel like covering that, I can't do everything, you know.

Three years ago, Catlin told this writer, «USADA should not enter into a contract that doesn't call for it to report positive test results to the appropriate governing body.

The media at large aren't calling White a bust... only a few local beat writers and disappointed fans are callous enough to kick someone while they're down.

you know, I have read several articles here calling fans who NOLONGER support Wenger names, it is a funny that such articles were posted pleaaurably without considering how fans who don't share the writer's views will feel.

Economics writer Jon Birger based his entire 2015 book, Date — onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game, on the fact that there aren't enough marriageable men because of «lopsided gender ratios and a massive undersupply of college - educated men» (although his views have been called patronizing).

What I try to do, sometimes I'm successful and sometimes I'm not as successful is there's a parenting writer called Barbara Coloroso, and she talks about whether something is illegal, immoral, or unsafe.

Not too long ago, a fellow writer wrote a beautiful, touching piece called, «Today, Mommy is Sad.»

Society isn't happy with single moms; according to a 2011 Pew Research Center study, nearly seven out of 10 said the trend toward single mothers was bad for society (although writer Tracy Mayor in Brain, Child magazine calls out the actual question asked by Pew researchers — how people felt about «more single women deciding to have children without a male partner to help raise them,» not whether they think single mothers per se are bad for society.

And one thing that..., that a writer called Kathy Detweiler who writes a lot about breastfeeding says is that, we are so used to that image of the enlarged post-surgery breast as being sexy, that we don't even think about it for a moment.

Since they are not faceless writers, their articles were well - intentioned and wakeup calls on security situation in the country though some of the assumptions on the person of the NSA were on wrong premises.

Political writer, Ronald Bruce St John has argued that with respect to the Convention that Israeli policy can not be technically called Apartheid because it lacks the racial component.

I am not sure what to call myself (yoga teacher, writer, healer, blogger?)

In a post called «Deconstruction of the Basic Bitch,» the writer of Ms. Not Right Now defines «basic» as «an uncanny ability to aspire to mediocrity.»

A writer by profession, Jennifer found her calling at DatingSpot after spending years creating content that she didn't relate to.

But life isn't a movie and being a hooker is going to get the «Pretty Woman» I saw another movie that came out when that one came out called «Whore» with Theresa Russell b / c that writer wanted to show what it was really like to be a prostitute.