We live in the most incarcerated country in the world," the musician told the audience as he collected his Oscar with co-writer Common.
"Third-rate", "not literature", "more a brand than a writer" are common attacks.
When I talk about this problem, as a writer, a common response from men, also writers, is to immediately talk about the harassment that they get.
Despite their disparities, the two writers shared common ground, a love -- and a comprehensive knowledge -- of literature.
The view of some Marxist writers that common ownership of all goods, or at least of land, was once universal among mankind can be neither proved nor disproved.
Roche responded that hiring such writers was common industry practice at the time of the articles, and it rejected the idea that they had been pressured to write positively about the drug.
And then there is the fact that writers, in common with all those to whom a higher office is entrusted as it were by the grace of God, cannot simply retire when the mood takes them; even today they are expected to keep writing until the pen drops from their hand.
When ethnic Chinese writers became common in the early 1900s, critics named Lie the "father of Chinese Malay literature" for his contributions, including Siti Akbari and Tjhit Liap Seng.
We designed readers and writers for common downstream spectral-identification software formats for SEQUEST-based data: pepXML files which are used in the trans-proteomic pipeline (Protein Prophet) and also the.sqt format, which can be used with DTASelect and Percolator (Kall et al., 2007).
Third, there are works of yangban writers and those of common writers.
Loosey-goosey descriptive lexicographers, with their anything-goes passivity, deride prescriptive pop grammarians like me as control freaks, but I look bemusedly at those roundheeled dictionary writers as common-usage nuts.
