Sentence examples for reading a writer from inspiring English sources

After all, at least some of the excitement of reading a writer like Kapuscinski comes from believing these things actually happened.

In a review of his early stories, I once quoted a Latvian acquaintance who said that when he encountered Mr. Updike's work he felt he was for the very first time reading a writer who "wasn't just making things up".

I have fond memories of reading A Writer's Notebook some 25 years ago.

Yet, putting aside the political aspects, if one appreciates "a dark but fantastic novel," as how John Irving describes The Informer, and an intriguing murder mystery, which had one murder in particular that caught this reader off guard, it's worth the effort of reading a writer who knows how to give substance to an admirable narrative.

I don't want to read a writer's clips.

I read a writer because I like the way he writes.

In an essay on Cesare Pavese's notebooks, later included in "Against Interpretation," Sontag asked: "Why do we read a writer's journal?

"I have never read a writer who I think is better at keeping your eye moving forward and your heart moving forward".

In a way I'm glad I didn't read "A Writer at War," drawn from Vasily Grossman's notebooks and newspaper articles from 1941 to 1945, when it was first published back in 2005.

Maybe I'll just show up in front of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue holding high a sign that reads: "A writer wrote all those scathing jokes about you".

And while it's one thing to read a writer's work, "It's something to see where the writer actually lived, where he made sense of the world from," said Thomas Chatterton Williams, an American writer living in Paris, who chronicled his journey to the Baldwin home for the New Yorker. .