Sentence examples for comparing writers from inspiring English sources

(She can also be overly effusive in her praise, calling minor works "transcendent" and comparing writers like Donna Tartt to Euripides).

The younger one is a horseback-rider, & she compared writers' block to the lack of confidence a rider might have before going over a jump.

A university spokesman said that English students had always been asked to compare writers of different eras, according to the BBC.

There is no reason to compare writers of wildly different genres, styles, backgrounds, and experiences — aside from the fact that they are all inhabiting the earth at the same moment, writing in whichever part of it they find themselves.

Novelists Walker Percy and Kurt Vonnegut both compared writers to canaries in a coal mine.

Taking to Twitter, the veteran US film-maker compared writer-director Jennifer Kent's mesmerising fairytale chiller to notable zeitgeist-changing classics of the horror genre.

It is perhaps not surprising that he is more often compared to writers than to other artists.

On the basis of his five novels he has been compared to writers from Poe to Camus.

Schulz has been called a symbolist, an Expressionist, and a Surrealist, and compared to writers as different as Kafka and Proust.

Ishiguro is praised for his precision and his psychological acuity, and is compared to writers like Henry James and Jane Austen.

Though he has been compared to writers from Chekhov to Anne Tyler, he comes across as more of a Bible-belt Wodehouse this time.