Sentence examples similar to first rate writer from inspiring English sources

Shephard is a first-rate writer with a preference for understatement.

Cusk, who won Britain's prestigious Whitbread Prize for her debut novel, "Saving Agnes," is a first-rate writer, caustically intelligent and sharply observant.

Mrs. White winced when the hurry showed, lamenting, "I really do think you are a first-rate writer and only suffer from haste or something".

It is likely that Susan Elderkin will, like Maugham, continue entertaining and moving us, a first-rate writer of literature of not quite the first water.

Fitzgerald's own deterioration has the elements of a classic morality play, which may be one reason for the popular appeal of the Fitzgerald saga; the fact that Fitzgerald recognized his self-indulgence and yet never quite gave up the effort to be a first-rate writer gives the story its tragic dignity.

"I could possibly be a third-rate writer".

You once accused your father of being a third-rate writer.

He confessed to another friend, "I've wasted my whole life on a second-rate writer".

He called Henryk Sienkiewicz, the Nobel Prize-winning author of the much-loved historical epic "Quo Vadis," a "first-rate second-rate writer".

So when the smart-aleck Ebert reviewed a new Curley novel for The Daily Illini, he skewered his favorite professor as a "first-rate second-rate writer".

Curley had lectured about the "first-rate second-rate writer," an author like John O'Hara or Sinclair Lewis, "who was good but not quite that good".