Sentence examples for literary profession from inspiring English sources

Subjects include: families, writing, feminism, the queerness of the literary profession and Willesden – topics close to my heart.

I'm struck, in just the little time I've been here, by how important, in a way, in the general scheme of things, the literary profession is.

Although he experienced early literary success, Holmes did not consider turning to a literary profession.

His profession is described in the 1871, 1881, and 1891 United Kingdom censuses, respectively, as a "translator of languages", an "author of work on chess", and a member of the "literary profession".

Both Liu Xiaobo, the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize winner from China, who is a literary critic by profession, and Mario Vargas Llosa, the literature laureate from Peru, testify to the impossibility of considering aesthetic matters in isolation from social and political movements.

But the literary tradition in the profession is probably the worst".

And for all the stir the novel has caused in the literary world, the accounting profession has been slower to take notice.

And the great scene where Trigorin seduces Nina with his profession of literary inadequacy is shifted from outdoors to indoors and interrupted every few seconds by banging doors and scurrying servants.

Rivera, a lawyer by profession, established his literary reputation with Tierra de promisión (1921; "The Promised Land"), a collection of sonnets portraying the untamed beauty of the Colombian tropics.

"My interest," he said, "was to do with the profession of letters, literary ambition and rivalry and in particular what happens if a novelist goes into the field of writing for performance".

Barthes was a literary theorist and a semiotician by profession.