In the magazine Prospect, the writer Kenan Malik summarized this position in an essay titled "Let Them Die".
With NaNoWriMo or National Novel-Writing Month underway, writers all over the world are doubtless concerned about the prospect of facing writer's cramp, writer's block (dare we mention it? -- more on that below), and the other occupational hazards that lie in wait for those who live their lives by the pen.
Writer describes walking a path leading through Endale Arch to Long Meadow, in Brooklyn Prospect Park... Writer tells about standing at the base of a World Trade Center tower, at one corner edge, and looking up; & about the cosmic revelation this affords.
It's now selling quality writing, a prospect that the writer in me applauds but the ironist in me finds endlessly amusing.
This can often be a terrifying prospect for a writer.
John Patrick Hayden's cheerfully scruffy Tom grows in assurance when his prospects as a writer take off.
Any existential panic – about her income, her prospects as a writer, her availability as a mother – evaporated in the face of daily necessity.
Dr. Lerner, with great difficulty, found a publisher for "No Farewell" (1955), a novel about the coming of fascism to Austria, but by the late 1950s she faced uncertain prospects as a writer.
Nathaniel Willis was represented as "Hyacinth Ellet", an effeminate, self-serving editor who schemes to ruin his sister's prospects as a writer.
A writer in Prospect magazine in January 1999 traced the decline of sociology as an academic subject back to The History Man.
The Salman Rushdie affair of 1989 was about many things, but an important part of the frisson that it inspired was the prospect of a lone writer bravely risking his life for his creative integrity.
