Sentence examples for affection for writers from inspiring English sources
As for prose, both men had a strong affection for writers living in America — Nabokov, Roth, Bellow, Updike — and a contempt for what McEwan calls the "overstuffed, overfurnished English novel".
As for prose, both men had a strong affection for writers living in America Nabokov, Roth, Bellow, Updike and a contempt for what McEwan calls the "overstuffed, overfurnished English novel".
By Wolcott Gibbs The New Yorker, December 10 , 1938P. 21 Comment on Mr. Frank Case's book about the Algonquin Hotel in which he expresses his deep affection for writers, actors and public entertainers.
He cites the Russian satirist Mikhail Bulgakov as an influence, yet expresses deeper affection for foreign writers: Franz Kafka, Hermann Hesse and, even more unfashionably, Robert M. Pirsig, author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".
Ms. Ruhl, who studied poetry before becoming a playwright, obviously has great respect and affection for both writers, and for those unfamiliar with the correspondence (published in 2008 under the title "Words in Air"), "Dear Elizabeth" will surely shed light on both the writers' emotional and working lives.
But other writers who had financial success manage to elicit in their readers an affection for the author that Rule never did.
Tiny (Thumbelina) translates her affection for a human-size writer by becoming his muse.
At about the time that Waugh was discovering his affection for the Diary another writer, J. B. Priestley, was extolling it as an exemplar of English humour; Jerome K. Jerome, Priestley asserted, never wrote anything as good: "[P]oor Mr Pooter, with his simplicity, his timidity, his goodness of heart, is not simply a figure of fun but one of those innocent, lovable fools who are dear to the heart".
It is a revealing remark because it shows Osborne's affection for the older generation of writers – Rattigan especially – whom he was to displace.
THE PROGRESS OF LOVE: My affection for the Canadian short story writer Alice Munro goes beyond the literary, I'm not ashamed to admit, to the unabashedly sentimental and nostalgic.
