WRITER'S WRITER: Like many of the genre authors who populate this page, the historical novelist Bernard Cornwell isn't blessed (if that's the word) with a lot of reviews.
Though he would have hated the term, Yates was a writer's writer, or even a writer's writer's writer.
He was more esteemed by his peers — revered, it's not too much to say — than by the public: he was a writer's writer, or even a writer's writer's writer.
He was more esteemed by his peers revered, it's not too much to say than by the public: he was a writer's writer, or even a writer's writer's writer.
By then, Salter had acquired his reputation as a writer's writer, or, as John Ashbery once said of Elizabeth Bishop, a writer's writer's writer.
Perhaps best known for his 1967 novel, "A Sport and a Pastime," he had a reputation, as Nick Paumgarten wrote in a 2013 Profile of Salter, "as a writer's writer, or, as John Ashbery once said of Elizabeth Bishop, a writer's writer's writer".
John Ashbery called her "the writer's writer's writer".
John Ashbery once called Elizabeth Bishop the "writer's writer's writer".
Yorke, who would never be more than a "writer's writer's writer", became a drunk.
Before then, she had been known, if she was known, as "a writer's writer's writer" — dismissal by hyperbole.
And in a short introduction he calls Green a "writer's writer's writer".
