Sentences with phrase «writers i know who»

Every professional writer I know who has an agent (and has yet to discover the agent is taking their money or stopping deals or not sending in books) thinks their agent is the exception.

Every writer I know who is a long term professional has practice methods for almost every craft a writer needs to master.

Some of the writers I know who have self - published are good — brilliant even.

One writer I know who put way too much description in her stories switched to painting.

Writers know who we are and we know it at an early age.

And I'd buy lots of them to give to the clueless writers I know who are still turning up their noses at self publishing.

When high school custom essay writer knows who and why, he or she can choose how to write: formal or chatty, angry or conciliatory, humorous or serious, and so forth.

The real writers — people like Joe Konrath and Barry Eisler and Hugh Howey and every professional writer I know who has gone indie — all of these people will tell you there are no guarantees.

I've forwarded them to some writers I know who are interested in self - publishing.

One of my favorite examples is from a writer I know who ends his bio by saying, «He lost on Jeopardy to a dancing waiter from Iowa.

«Mike Lawson... should be a fixture on the bestseller lists, if not a household name... Lawson has a deceptively smooth, low - key style that is perfect for the stories he tells... Mike Lawson is the only writer I know who comes close to matching the stories of the great Ross Thomas, the finest thriller writer to ever roll a blank page into an Underwood.»

The indie writers I know who were making a living writing in 2013 were still making a living — and in most cases, a better one — in 2014.

And I and the other environment writers I know who've focused increasingly on young audiences don't have illusions that we can spark some kind of youth - led eco-revolution.

Not exact matches

On Memorial Day weekend, Moghadam called his cofounders to let them know he'd heard from a writer at Gawker who was doing a post on his annotations.

«Usually in your life, you're the only one who knows this stuff,» said Gabriel Leigh, 28, a filmmaker and writer from Hong Kong.

On making a good impression when you're new to an organization «If you're new in a writer's room, and you don't know what to do or say: One, be the person who holds the marker and stands at the board.

Find someone to take engaging photos and videos; hire a writer who knows how to communicate.

Acuff is a writer who wants to write, but he knows that's not enough today.

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.

«The moment you think you know everything about your business is the moment you lose your competitive edge,» says Pat Flynn, a San Diego - based writer who focuses on online entrepreneurship.

For a writer who only knew how to write for Hollywood, it was thrilling.

Real insight and clear thinking from Steve — a highly successful business executive, entrepreneur and damn good writer who knows of what he speaks.

Online, my social - media universe was filled with journalists and Jewish communal professionals, rabbis and professors and nonprofit workers, all of whom knew that a Tablet writer had said something offensive about the Harvey Weinstein case — but outside my front door, I encountered people who didn't inhabit my social - media universe.

You can't - one of the most important traits of an engaging writer is that they know exactly who it is they're writing for; they know how to tailor their language to their audience.

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...

I really felt the meaning of your writing, and I can't imagine a writer who doesn't feel satisfied to know this.

~ G.K. Chesterton, (May 29, 1874 — June 14, 1936) a prolific English writer also known as the «Apostle of Common Sense» who convertd to Catholicism after being a Unitarian most of his life.

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.

Buckley was never a professional Catholic, in the sense of someone who made his living from the fact of his faith, and his standing as a Catholic commentator may have declined when, in 1961, National Review responded to John XXIII's encyclical on Christianity and social progress, Mater et Magistra, with an unsigned quip: «Mater si, Magistra no» (though most reports now ascribe it to a hotshot young writer at the magazine named Garry Wills.)

Ya know, Pauline, this makes me think that the Jesus created by the writer of Revelation 3:16 who made his Jesus say:

Like writers who assume that God is dead, Cheever knows that ours is an age of chaos wherein the metaphysical rug has been pulled from beneath our received values and beliefs.

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.»

To many he is known as one of the most courageous opponents of the bloody war in Indo - China, to others he is known as a leader in the civil - rights movement, yet to others he is known as a popular writer and speaker, and to yet others he is an enterprising young politician who will someday hold political office.

Experts on the origins of Europe traditionally refer back to Herodotus (c. 484 - 425 B.C.), the first known writer to designate Europe as a geographic concept: «The Persians consider something of their property to be Asia and the barbarian peoples who live there, while they maintain that Europe and the Greek world are a separate country.»

And we have all watched you boldly take the way of abundance — no matter how it seemed like it didn't matter — because God makes meaning out of messes, because He is the God who can make all our brokenness into abundance, because, you and I say this back to each other over and over again: The Writer of the story has written Himself into the hardest places of yours and is softening the broken edges of everything with redeeming, abundant grace.»

Including Josephus, there are ten known non-Christian writers who mention Jesus within 150 years of his life.

All of us who know, however underwhelmingly, the call to prophetic leadership, lay or ordained, are very well aware of what this seminarian is talking about; and in this sense there is, I am afraid, something almost inescapably deceiving in the stance of the preacher / Iecturer / writer — at least this one.

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.

The blog belongs to Jamie Wright — known as Jamie The Very Worst Missionary — a writer and missionary from Costa Rica who I'm convinced is the best new storyteller on the Internet.

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.

While confessional writings may make us think that we know the human being who lived in North Africa, or France, or SoHo, all we really know is what the writer chooses to tell us.

The student is invited to fill in the blank or, more commonly, to accept the answer provided by the writer of the textbook who simply knows, as everybody supposedly knows, that «traditional» belief and morality are no longer relevant.

The writers of the bible started the trend thousands of years ago but did not expect their musings to be taken as the Truth, who knew that people would buy this nonsense.

Now it is no longer «men of God writing Scripture as they were moved by the Holy Spirit» but rather, something like this: «Men of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.»

Mr article writer, according to the Bible the man who killed all those kids did not know God.

Those who wrote them, being believers, theologians, and preachers themselves, were seeking to make God and godliness known to their original envisaged audience, and the first question to be asked about each book has to do with what its writer saw it as saying and showing about God himself.

One of these dubious deterministic friends of religion is a former student of mine named Huston Smith, a pleasant, likeable person, who enjoys his complex view, in which he finds places for a number of recent writers, though he knows how little some of us agree with it.

No a «Christian» is someone who as the writer said, is passionate about Jesus yes, is intellectually engaged for Jesus sure, but far more importantly a Christian is someone who has a relationship with Jesus Christ, our Lord and God!

One more reason we need to know about religion is so that CNN can create controversy from it and keep people watching commercials and clicking on ads (which pay for the writers who create the controversy, thus keeping the unemployment rate down).

You need to read the whole chapter and know who the writer was talking to and why.