The phrase "a time when writers" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific period in which writers were active or produced notable works.
Example: "There was a time when writers like Hemingway and Fitzgerald defined American literature."
Alternatives: "an era in which authors" or "a period when writers".
There was a time when writers could hardly mention the name of the actor Richard Harris, who has died aged 72, without using the dread epithet "hellraiser".
There is something painfully nostalgic about Dreadful, because it recalls a time when writers could rise up so high that their fall might kill them.
There used to be a time when writers, purely on the basis of the books they had published, were invited to eat dinner with presidents.
But this was the 1950s, a time when writers - particularly writers with strong views about post-war social development - were objects of intense public scrutiny.
In any society Fallada would have struggled, but he had the supreme misfortune to be born at a time when writers who wanted to avoid the attentions of the Gestapo could choose between compromise, silence or exile.
At a time when writers often write with calculated eccentricity rather than out of a fateful obsession, and compose memoirs that seem devoid of self-understanding, his raw, original studies of culture and his masterly autobiographies provide a rich diet for famished readers.
Was there ever a time when writer-producer-director Helgeland, an Oscar-winner for his LA Confidential screenplay, actually wanted a screen version of Chaucer's Knight's Tale?
But he wrote honestly and unabashedly about desire, male and female, at a time when other writers were more circumspect.
William Tenn, who wrote satirical science fiction at a time when few writers in the genre displayed a sense of humor, died at his home in Pittsburgh on Feb. 7.
An early article for Esquire entitled A Few Words About Breasts bemoaned her flat chest at a time when few writers (female or otherwise) would lay themselves so bare on the page.
The income from these dead giants has allowed B&H to invest in living composers at a time when young writers find it more and more difficult to get their music published.
