Sentences with phrase «younger writers trying»

Were these writers more talented than younger writers trying to break in at the same time?

In an age of a so - called dying trade, Peter was very sympathetic and supportive to a young writer trying — maybe a little too hard — to crack into journalism.

This book has been so important to many young writers trying to wrap their minds around what college - level argument writing really is and has helped writing teachers scaffold skills for their students.

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Strong takes the audience through some early aspects of the writer's biography, like his romance with Eugene O'Neill's daughter Oona (Zoey Deutch) and his early rejections from The New Yorker, but Hoult plays Salinger as a typically frustrated young man, trying to make a creative breakthrough and angry at how closed - off New York's literary establishment seems.

A writer (Liam Neeson) is working on a book in Paris when his young lover (Olivia Wilde) visits; an ex-soap actress (Mila Kunis) battles her child's artist father (James Franco) for custody of the boy; a shady American (Adrien Brody) tries to help Monica (Moran Atias) find her daughter in Rome's underworld.

Touched North American Premiere Writer / Director: Karl R. Hearne Starring: Hugh Thompson, Lola Flanery Logline: A ghostly, psychological drama about a young woman who disappears from her building and her solitary landlord who tries to track her down.

Writer / directors Jon Lucas and Scott Moore have created a film aimed at young moms who are tired of trying to be perfect.

Jason Reitman's new film Tully hits theaters on May 4, reuniting the director, writer Diablo Cody, and star Charlize Theron — the team who ably skewered the final moments of rotting youthful freedom with 2011's Young Adult — to try their hand at motherhood instead.

One of the great American independent films of the 1990s, writer - director Whit Stillman's surprise hit Metropolitan is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a young man's romantic misadventures while trying to fit in to New York City's debutante society.

One of the great American independent films of the 1990s, the surprise hit Metropolitan, by writer - director Whit Stillman, is a sparkling comedic chronicle of a young man's romantic misadventures while trying to fit in to New York City's debutante society.

Directed by Kat Coiro, the film is set within the world of online dating and stars Justin Long as a young writer who tries to...

A young writer smitten with the barista at his local coffee shop scours her Facebook profile for intel and tries to transform himself into her dream guy.

The various elements often seem to clash: Golden Age musical and the»30s - or»60s - style left - wing labor drama, the young cast careening and leaping to songs like «Seize the Day» while the writers try to fill a broad canvas with social detail.

The whole «two people walk around a city and fall in love» plot has been done — most notably by Richard Linklater with his «Before Sunrise» / «Before Sunset» / «Before Midnight» trilogy — but by making his young lovers into the future President and First Lady of the United States, writer - director Richard Tanne easily clears one of the biggest hurdles facing anyone trying to grab an audience.

concerns a young writer (Jesse Eisenberg, hopefully channeling Woody Allen better than he channeled Lex Luthor) trying to make it in 1930s Hollywood while dealing with a dazzling starlet (Kristen Stewart), a ruthless agent (Steve Carell), and his gangster relative (Corey Stoll).

Here she entrances a young would - be writer living downstairs, played by Peter MacNicol, who senses the secrets and lies hidden inside the precarious life Sophie has tried to build for herself.

Denzel's acting is as top notch as you'd expect, and the very good turns by the young cast offer up modest surprises, but the script by Robert Eisele (writer of such crap as Darkman II and The Birds II: Lands End) tries to give us emotional content to try to win us over when it should have been earnestly trying more to appeal to our intellect to understand just why all of what we're seeing is of great significance.

Playing a variation on her charming, flighty, energetic Frances character, Gerwig pulls Kirke into her whirlwind life as an aspiring exercise instructor / singer / fashionista / cooking instructor / hairdresser / tutor / app developer / freelance interior decorator / writer, and tries to encourage the younger girl to embrace life to the fullest.

Writer and activist Audre Lorde, he says, best describes his argument that other young people should have that same access as they try to tell their stories: «If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive,» and «You can not, you can not use someone else's fire.

It comes from decades of watching young (meaning newer) writers try to game whatever system exists, whether the system is traditional publishing or indie publishing -LSB-...]

Young writers will learn the same ways they always have — by trying and failing until they succeed.

I really recommend if you're a young writer or artist trying to make a name for yourself, don't rely entirely on the online world.