Sentence examples for be a writer although from inspiring English sources

It's a great place to be a writer, although I've learnt "Canberra writer" can be something of a pejorative.

By this time, he says, he very much wanted to be a writer, "although not necessarily a poet".

She studied at New Hall, Cambridge, originally intending to be a writer, although she stopped writing as soon as she arrived and found herself acting instead.

When the novel's skeleton finally dances out of its flimsy closet, it's clear that although Shafak may be a writer of moral compunction she has yet to become — in English, at any rate — a good novelist.

It is important to realize that being an editor is very different from being a writer, and although editors do sometimes get opportunities to write, these opportunities do not usually form a core part of the job.

'I adore Dickens although, being a writer myself, once I'd read about seven of his books I could have written all the others for him in about five minutes.

But Marguerite was a writer more than a performer (although her memorable 1999 Radio 4 series on the cookery of the 20th century fixed her queen-motherly tones in many a brain), and her writing career was transformed by her association with the publisher Paul Hamlyn.

"I'm a writer for hire," Mr. Kemprecos said, "although I've written some books on my own.

Who will write our obituaries?" Although I am a writer and a former reporter for The New York Times, obituaries are not quite my style.

She was also a writer, although today she may be best known for her and her husband's gardens at Sissinghurst Castle.

The first step, of course, is to be a talented writer, although you don't have to be transcendentally great ("Longevity sets a high standard," Jackson writes, but it's "not stratospheric").