Sentence examples for kept writers from inspiring English sources

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It's hard to make a film when you're depressed -- which is what kept writer-director Boaz Yakin away from filmmaking for the past five or six years.

The NBA can't keep writers from tweeting out draft picks before they are made.

This is precisely why chefs tend to keep writers out of their kitchens.

That's one of the things that keeps writers writing: the fact that there's always more you can do.

By locking up the discs, Epic hopes to keep writers from converting the music to MP3's that can then be traded over the Net.

Talking, for example, about the slow pace of book editing, a process which sometimes takes months, he calls it a "true crime" that editors often keep writers waiting.

While there are plenty of readers who are not writers, there are no writers who are not readers, and one of the great gifts of this extraordinary bookshop is to keep writers and readers on the same creative continuum.

Avoiding clichés keeps writers from crafting a lazy string of mixed metaphors, such as a nightmare casting a shroud in a guise of contagion that resembled a deer so unlucky as to be both caught in headlights and paralysed.Yet Mark Liberman, a professor of linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania and a blogger at Language Log, has taken us to task.

Naughty Dog pays a premium to keep writers in-house and working from day one.

Reading is the superfood that keeps writers nourished.