"Then my dream happened: I crossed over from private writer to public writer.
That minor revelation was just one of the many ways that the debut of the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival, which ended on Monday, pointed up the connections — linguistic, scenic, emotional, even sporting — between this famously private writer and his native Ireland.
Without a private income, writers can only survive on sales, and prizes mean seeing a novel that has sold 700 copies go on to sell 100,000.
Nancy, while called a detective, would never meet the standards of the Private Eye Writers of America, given that she never earns a dime for her efforts.
Again, only the seed of a story was provided: a reclusive star of the first magnitude who has not permitted an interview for years grants one to a very private, literary writer, one of whose books she happens to like.
== * And somehow, I've become the private jet writer for TechCrunch.
But I bore in mind the simple truth that writers' private lives don't matter; only the work matters".
Profits from the sale of the Gonzo brand of marijuana would support renovations to the property as well as Anita's plans to establish a private museum and writers' retreat.
For producers, of course, a next move might be to withdraw their residuals plan, possibly in return for a private assurance that writers would respond with a similar movement, and perhaps in time to undercut the strike authorization vote.
There is that well-rehearsed view that the private lives of writers, politicians, footballers, ought to have little bearing on our judgement of their professional abilities and it is not as if Pryce has ever been convicted of shoddy economic analysis.
