Sentence examples for genuine writer from inspiring English sources

We are talking about sportswriters, a famously shopworn and bibulous lot whose calling the novelist Richard Ford, himself a former sportswriter, lamented in his novel "The Sportswriter," as "more like being a businessman, or an old-fashioned traveling salesman with a line of novelty household items, than being a genuine writer … there is very little that is ever genuinely creative to it at all".

"Every genuine writer has a voice of his own -- an inward voice that stems from his temperament as well as from experience," he said.

Whenever an author envisages a future book, "it is always a way of writing which first of all occupies his mind," which leads Robbe-Grillet to state – provocatively – that "the genuine writer has nothing to say.

The right-on heroine (a violin-playing, corporation-running mother of five, say, with an enlightened husband and a virile young lover called Raoul) is of no conceivable interest to any genuine writer; besides, she is well-represented in any number of admiring narratives — and you can get them at the airport.

One measurement of a genuine writer is his or her ability to evoke a place that is instantly familiar yet outside our direct personal experience, presenting it to us as a more accurate and vivid depiction than our prejudices had previously allowed.

Apparently, I am told by those who should know, that these are the signs of a genuine writer.

There was always something surreal about encounters with genuine writers inside the Soviet bloc in those days, and maybe Kapuscinski's diffidence was caused in part by that surrealism.

Students will advance from being oral storytellers to genuine writers.

Nichols sent Capra a note along with the statuette saying that if he kept the Academy Award, "it would be to turn my back on nearly a thousand members who ventured everything in the long-drawn-out-fight for a genuine writers' organization". He finally took the Oscar home in 1938 after the National Labor Relations Board certified the Screen Writers Guild as the bargaining rep for movie writers.

It's a philosophy that has won him admirers in high places: "Never mind all the best sellers and all the stereotypes — this man is a genuine, trueborn writer," Cynthia Ozick told The Times Magazine in 2000.

The Establishment (and How They Get Away with It) by Owen Jones Allen Lanee): at a time when politicians aspire to be pop stars and vice versa, it is refreshing that a genuine political writer and thinker can achieve such popular appeal.