Sentence examples for failed writers from inspiring English sources

Peep Show meant we weren't failed writers, which was a big thing.

The poem owes some of its depth of feeling to the perception of librarians as writers – failed writers, perhaps, but still initiates of the craft.

In fact, thinking about it, seven out of my nine novels feature or are narrated by passive, slightly depressed men – often failed writers or composers or both – who show a rather uncommitted sexuality and tend to fixate on past romantic disappointments.

T.S. Eliot said that many of them were just "failed writers".

Coates had praised Williamson's writing skills, and later criticized himself for having "failed" writers of color by backing the hiring.

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

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

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.

You feel like a bug," she tells her husband, Bill Peter Wellerr), a failed writer turned successful exterminator.

Wilson uses a failed writer's lies as a jumping point to her own voice.