Sentences with phrase «than writers who»

But now the writers have got to do exponentially more work exponentially more carefully than writers who are already way better at writing.

Last question: are you finding that authors who are also traditionally published (like Barbara and Gemma) are selling much better than writers who are only self - pubbed?

Whether you're writing fiction or nonfiction, smart writers who know how to build their catalog around funnels will always make more money directly with their words than writers who publish their work using the old «hope and pray» business plan.

They frequently cite that most of the Amazon bestsellers are written by indie authors and that they are earning more money than writers who get a traditional publishing deal.

Nothing is more damaging to fiction, she wrote, than writers who try to impose their beliefs on their novels in a forced or unnatural way.

Wow... I find this blog to be nothing more than a writer who has nothing better to do than to run down other writers.

But as you pointed out, that doesn't necessarily mean you've written a better book than a writer who self - publishes.

Not exact matches

Don't be too quick to commit, but if you're happy with the work being delivered, then it will be better to work with those who can supply consistent and predictable results than to try to find new writers to fit a mold.

«My husband and I probably spend more than the average person on groceries, as we both love to cook... perhaps $ 168 per week,» says Delorys Welch - Tyson, a U.S. writer and painter who has lived in Nice full - time since 1998.

And don't dismiss the idea of picking up the phone first and trying to directly reach an editor or associate editor, depending on the size of the media outlet, especially if you've identified more than one writer who would be appropriate for your story.

I liked the fact that people came together and batted around ideas, and then, as an editor, you would look for the perfect writer for it, somebody who could make it better than you imagined, then ultimately putting an issue together was about getting the right mix and the right tone.

Who better to learn from than actual published authors, writers, and editors?

In the financial blogosphere, I can think of no one who follows that adage better than Jason Fieber, the writer at the website www.dividendmantra.com.

But I'm one of those writers Melissa mentioned who writes for several sites other than my own — most paid, a couple not.

NerdWallet's team of more than 80 writers and editors includes seasoned journalists who have worked at major national news outlets.

Only follow - up on your pitch twice, other than that you're being annoying to the writer who likely saw the email or message and decided they didn't want to move forward.

The writer is a an executive who retired unexpectedly at 52 after things didn't work out at his job and he realized that he already has enough to retire, even though what he had was far less than his original retirement goal.

I am happy that the writer had the choices that she did... She is also free to decide whether or not she is a Catholic... She however, took an available medication for a health problem... most Catholic facilities recognize such health problems and allow for that treatment... I am completly puzzled, though, that she would not want other Catholics to be able to choose differently than she did... for those people who wish to use contraceptive services and medication, options are open to them... I am not Catholic, did not grow up in a faith based family, and don't know whether a God exists or not... However, to leave a relgious group with no option but to contradict its own tenets is an attempt by those who don't believe in those tenents to mock them, certainly, but more to erode them... this seems the aim of many and when those folks operate from inside the government... that intrusion is an overreach of the govenrment...

Who says your «truth» is any less true than the writer's?

To me no biblical writer demonstrates this dichotomy better than Paul, who, as a result, can seem very contradictory at times.

Think of what we learn from the stories of Flannery O'Connor, a lesser writer than Twain, certainly, but one who knew something very important about the world he didn't.

For readers and potential writers, here are some of the qualities we tend to look for in selecting verse: First, some indication that the poet has read more deeply than R. S. Gwynn's Narcissus in The Narcissiad, who «knows his poets, too, for he has read / The works of many, three of whom are dead.»

Last year it went to Dario Fo of Italy, who is less a writer than a comedian in the music hall tradition of Benny Hill.

From writers who are creatively exhausted from managing a constant stream of online feedback, to readers who can't seem to pull themselves away from their smartphones, to activists who are burned out from responding to yet another crisis with a social media campaign, to foodies who can't enjoy a meal without snapping a photo for Instagram, our writing, reading, and sharing habits consume more of our time and mental energy than ever.

I'm more that type of blogger than the click - baiter or the response - writer or editorialist anyway, who are we kidding?

It's entitled «The Danger of a Single Story,» and Adichie, a Nigerian writer, thoughtfully and humorously describes the human tendency to project a single, simplistic story onto groups of people who we perceive to be different than ourselves.

It just seems to me that as a writer / researcher who clearly knows better, it is really your job to attack, debunk and tear these assinine arguments about Obama's religious convictions to pieces rather than giving them some kind of legitimacy.

Paul, who makes the contrast more often than does any other writer, is very clear that the body is good in itself — so good that it is a temple of the Holy Spirit.

Further, the writer doesn't seem to realize that he is being hypocritical by judging those who judge him, rather than loving those who judge him.

I recalled that the last time I looked at the book, more than ten years ago, I felt embarrassed by the naïveté and piety of the young writer who sought to authorize her insights and proposals by quoting numerous theological, psychological and sociological authorities.

He quotes another modern writer who says that «it is femininity rather than masculinity which symbolizes the right attitude of the whole person before God.»

Obviously Jesus and the writers of Scripture treat some sins as more severe than others (see pp. 5 — 8 of this article), even though Eichenwald mocks anyone who thinks this as showing «that they know next to nothing about the New Testament.»

What we find is a series of separate scenes — snapshots rather than a movie — and the four writers, who in the closing scenes were constrained to follow a fixed order of events, use a large liberty in arranging the separate stories they tell, and the arrangement comes out differently in each of them.

«Every word you have written and spoken has been pure light to me,» Waugh once told his friend, and it was Waugh who came closer than anyone to explaining the difficulty of assessing a fellow writer who did not «employ a single recognizable idiosyncratic style» or stick to a single genre.

I remembered Brennan Manning — the man who has translated the love of God in a way that I could receive it more than probably any other writer — was addicted to alcohol and I re-read up one of his last books before he died: «All is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir» where he vulnerably writes about what this battle has cost him, even as he experienced the unending and unconditional love of God in the midst of it, how he experienced regret and pain and loss alongside of the love and tenderness of God in this dependency.

Those who advocate for «biblical equality» often overlook those passages in which women are clearly regarded by the writers of Scripture as less than equal.]

It is at this point that it is helpful to consider the contribution of Rudolf Bultmann, who has done more with New Testament mythology than most writers.

Matthew knew what John knew — John did not have a higher evolution of understanding of who Jesus claimed to be than the other apostles — it is just in the wisdom of God as He used each writer to convey understanding to the folks who received the letters and for our benefit in the ages to come that Matthew focuses on different things than John.

Podhoretz has his own twinges of pride: He writes as if the neoconservatives, those Family members who reacted to the late «60s by moving right rather than left, supplied Ronald Reagan with everything he needed to think about communism, although Reagan often said that the writer who most influenced him was Whittaker Chambers.»

Since you have the «one» correct interpretation of the Bible, you obviously need your own blog rather than trying to take over someone elses and in the process call the writer of that blog and many of the people who comment there false teachers and other demeaning terms.

[40] For him all human learning and philosophy is ultimately derived from Moses, who is «older than all writers.»

For him all human learning and philosophy is ultimately derived from Moses, who is «older than all writers.»

The congregation finds it simpler and less troublesome to believe the things God did as recorded by those few writers who survived the babel of conflicting proclamations of God's Word and achieved canonicity than to venture some faith - decision amid differing announcements of what God is doing in our time.

These «Fathers» spoke of the specific activity of God in Jesus Christ as being indeed the fulfillment, completion, and adequate expression, vis - à - vis men, of the Eternal Word of God, but they did not regard salvation as available only through Jesus; even in the Fourth Gospel, it would seem to be the writer's intention to have the Word speak, rather than the historical Jesus in isolation from that Word «who was in the beginning with God», «by whom all things were made», «who was the light of every man», and who in Jesus Christ was decisively «made flesh and dwelt among us».

The image of Tupperware rarely evokes philosophy, spirituality, or ethics, much less salvation, yet Marion Montgomery addresses all of these as he explores Walker Percy's sardonic comment on the plight of the believing Christian writer, who at the end of his artistic quest is more likely to find himself at a Tupperware party than in the presence of the Holy Grail.

The bible is a book of myths and fables... It just has had better promoters, who found it useful for their purpose, than Aesop or any of the other fiction writers of the past...

I found in Ford far more than I had hoped for: a writer who, by his own account, had «apprenticed» himself to America; whose stories and characters so spring from their landscapes and physical situations as to personify the spirit of the motels, roadside bars, lakes and highways where we encounter them; and who may well be, as his friend Raymond Carver (who died last summer) said, «sentence for sentence... the best writer at work in this country today.»

All the great spiritual writers have known this, but few in the Church's history understood it better, experienced it more deeply, and wrote about it with more insight than John Cassian, the monk from southern Gaul who lived in the early part of the fifth century.

Edward Anhalt, the distinguished screen, writer, who accepted: the award for Becket at that luncheon, commented that he was then working on the script for BoeingBoeing, a sex farce considerably less «religious» than Becket, a fact that created minor uneasiness among the pious present.

He is the individualist as writer, who must learn to turn his loneliness into creative energy rather than fall into self - pity.