Sentence examples for mere writer from inspiring English sources

A mere "writer"?

Why does he, a mere writer, get under people's skins so much?

But more than that, "Reasons" gives LaBute a chance to change his reputation from a mere writer of "shock" plays.

How could he, a mere writer, earn any money before he had an idea given to him by a total stranger?

In effect, Adams and Jameson relegated Smith's works to the (lowly) rank of literature, and demoted Smith himself from historian to mere writer.

She writes, "Woe to the mere writer whose words appear alongside the artist's visceral yet dreamlike works of unsurpassing beauty and unease!" Well put.

This may be because more and more, the authors of such books or essays are celebrity professors less dependent on readers' good will than mere writers are.

Mere writers got to expense dial-a-cabs out to the Hamptons after working late Fridays, at $150 a pop; and people rarely shared, snaking out to Sag Harbor in a pampered convoy.

And from this new poetic perch of his the aspiring writer began looking down on mere writers of fiction, who, for some reason, paid no heed to the (vital) visual arrangement of words on the page.

If you drove one around London, people would probably think you a member of a rock band rather than a mere prose writer.

The guests were Rudy Vallée, Tony Bennett, Mel Brooks (then a mere comedy writer, though he nowadays insists that he gave a dazzling impersonation of Fred Astaire on that October evening), and Joan Crawford.