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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a different writer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an author who is not the one previously mentioned or considered.
Example: "In this anthology, each story is written by a different writer, showcasing a variety of styles and perspectives."
Alternatives: "another author" or "an alternate writer".
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Are you a different writer in the different languages?
He hoped to be a different person and a different writer.
(As Longenbach notes, a different writer might need to surrender to "worldliness and excess").
"I would have been a different writer without her," he says.
The book's second half feels like the work of a different writer.
An earlier version of this piece included an illustration of a different writer with the same name.
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Mamet is a very different writer, of course, but the intelligence and pace are very similar".
A very different writer is Johan Theorin, whose fragile, glass-boned narrative style assumes an operatic scale in The Voices Beyond (Doubleday, £12.99).
As she goes on to include optics and mapmaking, the effect is chilling and exhilarating, like the history poems of a very different writer, the late Ken Smith.
Orwell was a very different writer, but, working with very similar material (some of the characters in "Down and Out" almost seem to reappear in "Tropic of Cancer"), he produced in "Down and Out" a very similar effect.
While most novelists, like tennis pros, repeat the same few strokes, Szalay's second book appears to be by a quite different writer - utterly foreign and eschewing the humour of desperation that marked his debut.
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