Sentences with phrase «writer has become»

Earning a living as a writer has become somewhat of a mythical dream, as if it takes finding a magical lamp, translating a code, or unearthing the talisman that opens a portal.

And hers was one of the first blogs that I really became invested in — you know, one you read every week because the writer has become like an old friend and you want to catch up with them.

To these and other examples of how feminist - minded writers have become inadvertent witnesses for the prosecution of the sexual revolution, we might add recent public reflection on the Pill's bastard child, ubiquitous pornography.

It is true, it has become easier for people to just piece together a first draft of something and have it available for purchase but this doesn't mean good books and great writers have become extinct.

It's fun to think about getting an agent and one of the big NY publishers, but as you said, when reality kicks in and you realize how huge the pool of writers has become, it's time to find alternative ways to get published.

She tells of returning to her childhood diaries after making that claim, looking for evidence of the writer she would become.

There is a form of internet - fed megalomania sweeping through the indy publishing community and writers have become the victims.

One of our writers has become a reviewer and the actual design of the website was very much helped by advice and suggestions from the writing community.

These, presumably, are experiences that really helped to shape the travellers, and writers they have become.

Many Worldchanging writers have become leading voices in important planetary conversations.

David Harvey, chief executive of STEP, which is calling for professional regulation, said: «This research shows how widespread cowboy will writers have become and it is clear those who charge a fee for writing a will should now be regulated.»

Professional CV writers have become a huge necessity these days.

Not exact matches

A keychain phone charger, like the one that Money writer Shawn M. Carter has from The inCharge, lets you juice up wherever you are — and keeps you from becoming the person constantly on the lookout for the closest outlet.

We have this feeling that since we are not good writers now, we can not become good writers.

In ZeeMee's case, the reason other solutions had failed became obvious rather quickly: Artists, athletes and musicians aren't always great writers.

No wonder Stephen King advises that «if you want to become a writer, you have to do two things above all: Read a lot, write a lot.»

Right after I finished my undergrad degree, I assisted writers with writing books, but I had my ambitions set on someday becoming an investigative reporter.

You might know Strauss already — the Rolling Stone writer is also the author of «The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists,» a book that's become something of a bible to awkward young men who would like to learn the curious arts of charming women.

Keeping in mind both, search engine and user — it has become more crucial for content writer and as well as search engine optimizer to find the queries that best suite the user need and follows the search engine guidelines.

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Since that time, she has also fulfilled a life - long dream of becoming a writer.

Have you ever thought of becoming a writer?

Entrepreneur writer Diana Ransom suggests that if «you've personally guaranteed any of your business's debt — meaning, if a creditor or supplier can come after your personal assets if you default — make sure paying off those debts becomes a high priority as well.»

If you have a talent for the written word, what better way to work from the comfort in your own home and have extremely flexible hours than to become a freelance writer.

My mind is more active, I feel like I'm building towards something bigger every day, I've become a stronger, faster, more confident writer, and readership on this blog has broken records two months in a row.

But in Ker's view, they can not fairly be counted as Catholic writers, since Conrad had stopped practicing his faith before he began to write and Sitwell and Sassoon had stopped writing before they became Catholics.

The Bible has long been a source of inspiration for writers — most people don't realise just how many phrases from scripture have become embedded... More

A little later, packing up his manuscripts, Ford happened to see «the page and the very commended phrase «old - eyed», and to notice that somehow in the rounds of fatigued retyping that used to precede a writer's final sign - off on a book in the days before word processors, the original and rather dully hybridised «cold - eyed» had somehow lost its «c» and become «old - eyed», only nobody'd noticed since they both made a kind of sense.»

David Griffin has become the leading writer in the 9/11 truth movement.

At this point in the course, I would want my students to grasp what was just beginning to become clear to the Renaissance humanists themselves: that there are fundamental commonalities between humanistic culture and Christianity that bring them together objectively, irrespective of the wishes and plans of writers, artists, and intellectuals.

Charlotte is an exceptional spider whose affection as a friend and talent as a writer have saved the pig Wilbur from becoming ham and pork chops.

English writer C.S. Lewis had this to say after his wife, Joy, died, «You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.

Although the early Christian writers had the Old Testament as their Scriptures, not one of them had any idea that he was writing something that would itself become Holy Writ.

No one could honestly read the letters of the New Testament without becoming aware that not only the writers themselves but scores of other people were looking at life and death in a way in which they had never been looked at before, and were experiencing a contact with the living God unprecedented in human history.

This was good training for a kid who would one day become a writer of adventure and suspense novels, but it also taught me that words and thoughts should have integrity.

«Islam began as a religion of justice but it has become corrupted into an ideology of fear, said the Muslim writer».

That is, we may ourselves become machines: consumers, robots, soldiers, students, categories a, b, c, and d — an image that has been with us in the utopian writer for some time now.

Similarly, the biblical writers were not afraid to speak of God as Father because they have become convinced that God is not a male being.

The same writer who had written a moving account of Communist atrocities against the Catholic Church in Mexico during the 1930s became an advocate of the slack Christian - Marxist «dialogue» of the 1980s.

Tolstoy, for instance, is an epic writer, whose books overflow with physical details and frequently threaten to overflow their own narrative structures and become as vast and as inconclusive as life itself, while Dostoevsky is a dramatic writer, whose books are full of fraught and urgent voices, at times almost disembodied, trapped in situations of immediate and pressing crisis, and surrounded by a physical world usually having no more substance than a collection of painted canvasses or pasteboard silhouettes at the back of the stage.

It is, therefore, no surprise that academic literary critics, who owe their very existence to Shakespeare and other great writers, have cast doubt upon Shakespeare's exalted position at exactly the moment in history when the societies of the West have become most anxious about their own integrity and probity.

Gospel writer John is believed to have penned his biblical works in his 90s and retired minister Cyril Grant MBE became the oldest first - time author on record at 94

The best answer comes from Leon Bloy, a writer who himself chose to become a Catholic: «Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist,» wrote Bloy, «and into them enters suffering, that they might have existence.»

The writer of this book returns repeatedly to the subject of the future life, but for him Sheol has vanished, bodily resurrection has become both incredible and undesirable, and the Messianic age has so lost its dramatic staging and its vivid importance that the most explicit reference to the idea simply says that the righteous

All great Christian writers assign considerable significance to such experience, Luther and Calvin as well as Teresa or John of the Cross, and for good reason, for without some experience, however humble, few people would be religious, particularly today now that the social pressure for actively belonging to a religious body has become so much weaker.

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?

I've known writers who were funny who stopped being funny, who became serious persons and could no longer make jokes.

How lengthy would this essay have become, if it would have listed the theses, negative and positive, with which the writer is in profound agreement, such, for example, as the role which Radhakrishnan assigns to religious experience, and his criticism of scepticism, radical materialism, environmentalism, and behaviourism!

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.

In the thought of Jesus and the New Testament writers, it is the inclusive body of Christ's followers who have become God's redeemed, obedient, and faithful servants.