Sentence examples for unsuccessful author from inspiring English sources

As soon as I could, I went home and settled down to being the unsuccessful author of the next book.

For Dad, as a totally unsuccessful author, being in effect in service to a highly esteemed poet afforded a unique orgy of inadequacy.

Even for the unsuccessful authors, life could hardly have been better.

The title refers to a contract taken out by morose, unsuccessful young author William (Aneurin Barnard), who wants to commit suicide but can't work up the nerve.

Caulfield, his stellar fictional creation from "Catcher in the Rye," was, like the author, unsuccessful in school and inclined to retreat from a world he perceived as hostile to his needs.

None of the projects has been designated as unsuccessful by the authors, which could be either a sign of the method's strength or of publication bias.

Despite intense research efforts, there currently remains no NOX4-specific inhibitor and several attempts to generate peptides that disrupt NOX4 function have been unsuccessful with the authors concluding that, unlike other NOX isoforms, NOX4 exists in a tightly assembled and active conformation, which cannot be disrupted by conventional means [ 142, 143].

The New Yorker, September 16, 1939 P. 75 Author's unsuccessful attempts to find Mr. Henry Luce.

By E. J. Kahn The New Yorker, September 16, 1939 P. 75 Author's unsuccessful attempts to find Mr. Henry Luce.

And they became French best sellers, at least in part by stirring intense debate and controversy, including an unsuccessful lawsuit charging the author with "incitement to discrimination, hatred and violence".

A further strategy if these measures were unsuccessful was to contact other authors the original author had recently published with to request contact information.