Not a reader himself (he is notorious for not bothering to read the books he is selling), he cultivated writers, publishers, and playwrights, and brought the studio heads projects they could never have found by themselves, for prices they would never have dreamed of paying to anyone else.
He is aptly shown to be in a chrysalis stage between awkward hick (he disparagingly refers to his neighbors as "peasants") and cultivated writer-about-town.
Eventually, she is asked to take part in an operation code-named "Sweet Tooth," which involves using a phony foundation to cultivate writers who might promote an anti-Marxist, pro-West perspective in articles or speeches.
While expanding the company's holdings through takeovers and mergers of other publishing houses, Mr. Jovanovich cultivated such writers as Hannah Arendt, Milton Friedman and Charles Lindbergh.
I read aloud to my sons long after they could read on their own, always insisting that the read alouds be something I could stand to, well, read aloud -- writers like E.B. White, Sydney Taylor, Kate DiCamillo, Rebecca Stead, stylists who continued cultivating my writer's ear as I spoke their lovely sentences into the air.
This mental sleight of hand is what affords her the psychological space to create a new life and cultivate her writer's craft.
Good publishers find and cultivate writers, some of whom do not initially have much commercial promise.
Paavo Rintala, a prolific writer, cultivated the documentary novel, frequently addressing issues related to World War II.
Should they cultivate other writers?
The bogus document spoke of effective ways for "dissuading science teachers from teaching science" and of "cultivating" respected writers on climate issues.
You can be sure the Court, which likes to cultivate its writers over time, will be on hand to show us.
