Sentence examples for illustrious writers from inspiring English sources

Ward's writing is partly inspired she has said, by her sense of being "goaded" by illustrious writers of the south.

They ruled from Aleppo until they were absorbed by the Fāṭimids after 1004; at their court some of Islamdom's most lastingly illustrious writers found patronage.

Karl Marx, Virginia Woolf, and many other illustrious writers and thinkers, both British and foreign, did their work in that room.

Fashion and beauty aside, the magazine had surprisingly illustrious writers: for years it held a fiction contest that discovered fledgling novelists including Sylvia Plath and Mona Simpson.

But despite some illustrious writers and columnists, The Herald Tribune, long known for independent Republican traditions and, journalistically, as a newspaperman's newspaper, went into decline.

I don't recall any voluble managers who were eager to recommend books, or pictures on the walls featuring staff members with arms slung around the illustrious writers who visited.

Meanwhile, another illustrious writer, John Updike, called the book a "real page-turner, as well as an insistently metaphysical mind-bender".

The implied name-drop was part of the joke, yet it also handily communicated his friendship with the illustrious writer.

His legacy contains not only a life of radical courage and political integrity; it is also ranges alongside an even greater reputation as an illustrious writer.

Also, as a public man obliged to write speeches and narrate events, I agree with the illustrious writer on the delight of finding the exact word - a kind of shared and inexhaustible obsession - until the phrase fits our criteria.

Spurred on by Leonarda, a seductive, chameleonic Argentine whose Master Plan to hunt down the city's most illustrious writer implies a web of psychological and sexual intrigue, Daisy enters into murky moral territory, only to discover that the game is being played on her.