Sentence examples for a failed writer from inspiring English sources

'Remember, Stalin was a failed writer, Hitler was a failed painter," says Andrzej Stasiuk, the latest cult writer to emerge from post-communist Europe.

Well, I wouldn't fit very well as a failed writer.

Mike Sullivan was, to put it harshly, a failed writer.

I play a failed writer who is... It's funny how he gets you to do that.

Dolly was a nobody who could have been somebody instead of being a failed writer.

For 14 years I was a failed writer with a really good day job.

Still damaged--and separated--by the unspeakable event, the three live equally wretched lives as adults, Cherry in a mental institution, Rennie as a promiscuous failed writer and Amy in a loveless marriage.

He brought three men – a young college dropout, an elderly farmer and a violent failed writer – together in the same room.

"Conways" — which has three acts, set in the happy past and the unhappy future (before returning to the happy past) — allows its central character, a hopeful (then failed) writer, a youthful prevision of the grim, middle-aged life to come.

A clumsy mixed-nuts comedy, Carlo De Rosa's "Finding Joy" suggests Mad Libs with its story of an uptight, failed writer who moves back in with his family.

Even when she's describing Algeria's frequent massacres, Thassa's mere presence lifts everyone's mood, and the teacher, Russell Stone, a conscience-stricken failed writer, immediately becomes obsessed by her capacity for happiness.