Sentence examples for strange writer from inspiring English sources

Nicola Barker is such a strange writer, though.

Saramago is a smart and profoundly strange writer.

For Rushdie, who was Melville's next-door neighbour in the mid-1980s and remains a friend, she is a "wildly original and strange writer".

Dasgupta is a strange writer: uneven, sometimes a little formulaic, and even seemingly a little bored by the obligations of detail, but also graced with a superbly ironic eye and a gift for sentences of lancing power and beauty.

I would troop around the Warwick University campus evangelising for this strange writer who cut holes in the pages of his novels and insisted that his publishers package them as unbound pages in a box, until I remember a friend saying to me, one day: "I think you'll grow out of BS Johnson".

By Macy Halford January 25 , 2010I find Rebecca Solnit to be such an interesting, strange writer — an historian of the recent past whose books might almost be described as travelogues, and who writes with a diarist's intimacy and an investigative journalist's interest in speaking truth to power.

Koppelman's Vines (along with wildly popular screenwriting-advice sites like the one by John August) occupy a strange writer-empowerment territory that has grown up on the Web, places where seasoned practitioners of the form try to assert to their followers that there is an art to what they do, and that the art can be gradually decoded.

The Independent in London once referred to him as "the strangest writer in Britain".

And Kent Russell is one of the funniest and strangest writers I know.

Baker is a strange, determined writer, and I am fascinated to see what she does next.

It's so strange that writers, who understand words, say something like that, since what they mean, obviously, is exactly the opposite: "I've got the biggest hard-on you've ever seen!" I accept, too, that sponsorship is necessary and inevitable but I think it's sometimes useful to step outside the area of discussion and look elsewhere.