The Bagger likes a scoop as much as anybody, but really, all this set-to does is make people breathe even heavier over when they will get to see "Dragon Tattoo," a fact that Sony surely knew when it sent that 2 a.m. e-mail to a bunch of eager writers, and that Mr. Denby knew when he jumped ahead of the pack to cover it.
The ensuing recovery time was hell for the over-eager writer.
Stoppard, an eager re-writer, thanks Faber in an author's note to a later edition of one of his plays, for their indulgence of his frequent textual revisions for new productions.
Still, eager food writers have hailed the release as "a milestone of sorts," as the blogger Cookbook Man noted this week.
After all, why be contentious when a million other eager young writers are out there, all waiting to take your place?
So instantly popular was that feature, "Teardown of the Day," and so numerous the demolitions, that curious citizens began to approach his dark, idling vehicle and ask, "Is there a house being torn down around here?" Mr. Matlow, who has lived half his 68 years in Westport, began to wonder whether his funereal wheels might suggest an over-eager obituary writer anticipating his subject's demise.
When I opened the book I realized that the author was the same eager-beaver writer who had been e-stalking me for a couple of years pressing to interview me for a book about music.
Even her grammatical errors and misspellings are faithfully preserved by the adulatory Kukil, as if Plath hadn't been a living, vulnerable young writer eager to present her best work but a mummified goddess.
In that book Nathan was a starry-eyed young writer, eager to worship at the altar of high art and convinced that he had found a role model in the reclusive writer E. I. Lonoff, who led a quiet existence in the Berkshires, far from the distractions of the city and far from the literary hubbub.
No wonder there was eager competition among writers; no wonder the best writers of the day, including Rudyard Kipling, DH Lawrence, Bennett, Joseph Conrad and HG Wells, placed the form at the very centre of their creative practice.
The New Yorker, March 26 , 1927P. 17 People are intensely eager to see writers at work.
