Sentences with phrase «of writer self»

Think of your writer self as an eager, creative child.

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And refocus on the Kindle, both in terms of publishing e-books and of skimming off the cream of writers self - publishing through Kindle Direct.

The development of e-publishing has lead to a flood of writers self - publishing their work on sites like Amazon which provide authors with all the ready - made retail infrastructure in return for a cut of the profits.

Not exact matches

Holiday's other big client is Tucker Max, a writer and self - described asshole who has built a career out of recounting stories about his most hilarious blowjobs and benders.

«This was the first time we saw self - publishing turn into an audition for commercial prime time,» says Nathan Maharaj, director of merchandise at Kobo, which recently launched Kobo Writing Life, a self - publishing e-book service for aspiring writers that Maharaj's team closely monitors for «opportunities that are worth mainstream attention.»

«I don't understand how Apple could ruin the record business in one year on Mac,» said Doug Morris, the head of Universal Music, according to Appetite for Self - Destruction, a new book about the record industry's ills by Rolling Stone writer Steve Knopper.

Writer Roxane Gay, author of numerous books including «Bad Feminist,» discusses the complexities of being a self - proclaimed feminist.

Since 2009, Kevin Mercadante has been sharing his journey from a washed - up mortgage loan officer to emerging from the Financial Meltdown as a contract / self - employed «slash worker» — accountant / blogger / freelance writer — on Out of Your Rut.com.

We're independent analysts and writers who cut through the hype of the mainstream financial media, and self - serving private bankers, to give you real insight.

To be sure, there are those (such as the three hundred plus self - described «lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and allied activists, scholars, educators, writers, artists, lawyers, journalists, and community organizers,» including such notables as Gloria Steinem, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Kenji Yoshino), who have already signed on (quite literally) to the proposition that there are no reasons of principle (or valid reasons of any kind) for conceiving marriage or the equivalent as a two - person relationship, as opposed to a relationship of three or more individuals (triads, quadrads, etc.) in a polyamorous sexual partnership.

According to the late Russian dissident Andrei Sinyavsky, «Every self - respecting writer of any significance is a saboteur, and, as he surveys the horizon wondering what to write about, more often than not he will choose some forbidden topic.»

He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions of the market, a self made secure by the creation of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems as delicious experiences of voyeurism, illusions of direct access to the life and thought of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare animal in a zoo.

Never mind that the Christian intellectual tradition is more than «Western» in the usual use of the term, and never mind that there is nothing more uniquely Western than the pattern of self - criticism that easily turns into self - denigration, it is true that Christianity is undeniably and foundationally entangled with the West, and that is enough, in the minds of many writers, to put it beyond the pale.

But it is also worth noting that, if one can pierce through the layers of narcissism and sentimentality that so often deface this talk of «journaling» as self - discovery, these popular writers are reminding us of something that many previous generations of very sober Christians, from Augustine of Hippo to the Puritans of seventeenth - century England and America, would have warmly endorsed: Each of us does indeed have a unique personal narrative, one whose essential shape is not always easily discerned.

Also, I couldn't quite get this into words as I was writing before, so: I am believe that I am correct in my view of Scripture as it has been handed down to me from teachers, preachers, writers and others; I believe that I am correct in my beliefs about who God is, and about His self - revelation, in the same way that all people believe that the opinions they hold are true.

Kurt vonnegut, the renowned writer and self - avowed humanist, once said that his epitaph should read, «The only proof he ever needed of the existence of God was music.»

A score of writers have noted the potentially perverted uses of «paternalistic» styles of ministry and pastoral care — the fostering of a congregation's childlike dependence on the pastor, the turning of ministry into pastoral self - gratification at the expense of congregational freedom and maturity.

Words written in bible represent mind set of a hindu, secular, crook self centered writer hundreds of years after Easu, anointed one, corresponding not to essence of teachings, but plot to justify hindu Mithra ism, pagan savior ism, in violation of spirit of true teachings.

Other writers, such as Raimundo Panikkar who has been mentioned already, have made a distinction between the Logos - the eternal principle of God's self - revelation - and Jesus of Nazareth in whom that principle is expressed.

For purposes of classification, therefore, it would perhaps be most accurate to think of Davies as a writer of Christian apocrypha: a novelist who finds himself uncomfortably restrained by the canon of Christian thought, but who is not, on the other hand, a heretic; a self - proclaimed moralist who holds that while we reap what we sow, it is often difficult to know the nature of the seed or the outcome of the harvest.

Kierkegaard conceived it his function as a writer to strip men of their disguises, to compel them to see evasions for what they are, to label blind alleys, to cut off men's retreats, to tear down the niggardly roofs they continue to build over their precious sun - dials, to isolate men from the crowd, to enforce self - examination, and to bring them solitary and alone before the Eternal.

By invoking the memory of Galileo's struggle with the church in the same breath with the «revolutions in science» associated with Newton, Darwin and Einstein and the claim that science transforms our self - understanding, the writers fall into a stereotype about the warfare between science and religious faith and they exhibit a 19th - century common belief that science will displace religion.

Try not to over speculate the writers word usage but rather the over all meaning of what the writer intended and that is, «Don't be Self - righteous.»

The writer comes off as very self - centered instead of God - centered.

(1) Biblical teaching is coherent and self - consistent: for, as I said above, with whatever variety of literary form and personal style from writer to writer and with whatever additions and amendments as redemptive history progressed, it all proceeds from one source; namely, the mind of God the Holy Spirit.

In Washington Irving, however, and in a host of other self - styled progressive writers after him, the Inquisition and «monastic bigotry» are the forces that must be overcome to create America.

To such writers as C. G. Jung and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy the myth is an embodiment in different forms and cultures of a perennial reality, the spiritual process whereby the one becomes the many and the many returns unto the one or the psychological process whereby integration of the personality is achieved and the divine Self realized within the unconscious.

This is really a discussion of sanity vs insanity; or reality vs supernatural hogwash, or truthfulness vs religious delusions, or fact vs fiction, or logic vs religious magic, or brainwashing vs thinking for one's self, or historical facts vs myth writers.

It suggests that the ideological commitments of many of our religiously informed activists, writers, and leaders have led to self - inflicted blindness.

If Jesus thus employed a familiar way of speaking, not just casually but in circumstances which made it the vehicle of a partly veiled assertion of his vocation, then «Son of Man» came to be something like a self - designation replacing the traditional title of «Messiah» That is how the writers of the gospels seem to have understood it.

The younger writers are so self - conscious, so steeped in a certain kind of liberal education, that their characters can't condone even their own sexual impulses; they are, in short, too cool for sex.

Not seeking power, but hoping to persuade nonetheless, all of these men came to exemplify a southern stoic self - reliance immune to the blandishments of the pop celebrity that was given great writers in the 1950s and 1960s.

It is not a problem to be left in the hands of some virtually self - appointed, unaccountable publishing committee in New York or teams of writers who may not have seen or helped a «wet drunk» in years.

C.S. Lewis writes beautifully on this concept and, if you'll allow me, I'd like to include way more of his quote in this article than any self - respecting writer should.

In the hands of later interpreters, particularly the writers of the French Enlightenment, the Newtonian world - machine was seen as deterministic and self - sufficient, the scene of purposeless and blind forces.

His «wisdom» consisted, we suspect, in his profligate and ultimately self - flattering sponsorship of native and imported «wisdom» artists — articulate writers and reciters of a kind of prephilosophical moral philosophy current in the Near Eastern world of the tenth century and preserved, in essential character at least, in Proverbs, in many of the Psalms, and, in a different vein, in the Prologue and Epilogue of job (Job 1 - 2; 42:7 - 17).

[8] In looking back and examining such documents, one does so not out of some kind of antiquarian curiosity, but because the issues and themes with which the writers and theologians of the early church wrestled with are of enduring significance even for the self - understanding of the church today.

It is no coincidence that the near unanimous judgment of science fiction writers is that a world dominated by technological hardware is a world in which individual human self - identity is missing.

In looking back and examining such documents, one does so not out of some kind of antiquarian curiosity, but because the issues and themes with which the writers and theologians of the early church wrestled with are of enduring significance even for the self - understanding of the church today.

In the case of atheists, the five followed feeds included Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, Monica Salcedo and Michael Shermer - the latter two respectively being a self - described «fiercely outspoken atheist» blogger, and a science writer who founded The Skeptics Society.

What a tragedy it is when we collectively dismiss the goals and aspirations of the entrepreneur, the artist, the writer, the thinker, because their world is more self - consuming than the simple bureaucratic policy wonk would have us believe.

Some writers, Goethe, Hegel, and Coleridge among them, had their doubts about what they perceived to be a superficial, self - indulgent, and potentially dangerous drift of intellectual life.

Reality is constantly measured in terms of self, of personal feelings and desires, which, as soap opera script writers never tire of telling us, will not, must not, can not be denied.

Without an explicit directive from God to exclude and condemn homosexuals, the Christian community's treatment of gay persons is in clear violation of what Jesus and the New Testament writers pointedly identified as the most important commandment from God: to love one's neighbor as one's self.

In both seasons, writer Peter Morgan (a self - proclaimed «royalist») asks his audience to consider the value of a leader whose personality isn't on display for all to see.

First, this term has become an expression of self - representation, which Dalit activists and writers have chosen both in recovering their past identity and in projecting themselves as a collective whole?

Citing the writings of Philo, Plato, and Dio Chyrysostom, Matthew notes that same - sex relations were not considered objectionable to these writers because partners shared the same anatomy, but «because they stemmed from hedonistic self - indulgence.»

In the midst of the crisis, or rather perhaps because of it, they discovered, in the words of the early 20th - century Arab Christian revolutionary writer and artist Kahlil Gibran, that «Your neighbor is your other self dwelling behind a wall.

His impression is that the Fundamentalist is more concerned with his code than with the vast spiritual issues of life — love, kindness, patience, tolerance, pride, self - righteousness, bitterness, or humility... It is against this mind - set in Fundamentalism that the writer wishes to protest.