Sentence examples for failed writer from inspiring English sources

'Remember, Stalin was a failed writer, Hitler was a failed painter," says Andrzej Stasiuk, the latest cult writer to emerge from post-communist Europe.

Well, I wouldn't fit very well as a failed writer.

Mike Sullivan was, to put it harshly, a failed writer.

I play a failed writer who is... It's funny how he gets you to do that.

Dolly was a nobody who could have been somebody instead of being a failed writer.

For 14 years I was a failed writer with a really good day job.

The story's focus, however, is Max, a failed writer with hair like tumbleweed and a newfound knack for robbery.

And I don't know why, but the plot of a failed writer turned private eye happened to speak to me.

In his new identity as failed writer, he worked as a copywriter, graphic designer and location scout.

"He's a wiseacre, yet there's a part of him that's really sincere and wants a heartfelt conversation," observed the event's moderator, the journalist Steve Oney, comparing Mr. Kaus' campaign to the failed writer-candidates Upton Sinclair and Gore Vidal.

Its opening sentence sums up postcards, but also Evans's art and suggests a not-so-failed writer: "The mood is quiet, innocent, and honest beyond words".