Sentence examples for competent writer from inspiring English sources

It is always a pleasure to be in the hands of an entirely competent writer.

Solomon is a perfectly competent writer, despite the occasional lapse into cliché ("surreal desolation"; "the red orb of the sun").

To go from being a competent writer to being a great writer, I think you have to risk being – or risk being seen as – a bad writer.

For no apparent reason — or, at least, no reason that Tolan, a competent writer with little insight or perception, can make clear — Katia wants to go back to Russia, with Vlad, a childhood friend who shares her origins.

He is stricken with a vague queasiness which he suspects might be stomach cancer.Mr Cunningham is a swift and competent writer, and for this reason the pages of "By Nightfall" fly past despite the curious charismatic void that is its main character.

A competent writer must describe the world as it is.

Both authors are competent writers, if not literary ones.

There were competent writers on interesting subjects who were just careless enough in their spelling and punctuation to keep a girl occupied.

The anti-MFA side also sometimes says that MFA programs don't actually create great writers — they might create writers that can imitate other writers, or competent writers, or writers skilled in a certain type of literary short-fiction, but not great writers".

Competent writers will fulfill their dream, but they must be willing to work hard and develop a thick skin.

Given this competition, not to mention the dramatic uptick in literacy rates over the last century, it's also safe to assume there are more (competent) writers today than there were in 1940.