Sentence examples for writer firmly from inspiring English sources

Somehow this seemed appropriate for a writer firmly yet ambivalently ensconced in California.

Jerry Delfont, the narrator of Theroux's latest novel, "A Dead Hand," is a travel writer firmly embedded in the transactional side of the business.

Greene had a blind spot when it came to most female writers, firmly declaring that he had not read -- and obviously had no intention of reading -- "Pride and Prejudice".

The judges' meeting was rancorous almost from the start, with Mr. Holden leading a Heaney contingent that also included the model Jerry Hall, and Mr. Harris and the humor writer Nigel Williams firmly in the Harry Potter camp.

All film-makers, artists, musicians and writers were firmly in cahoots.

"It was a nightmare, but it made you stronger as a person and a better writer," Elton says firmly.

As a writer, though, she belongs firmly in the big league.

And I was very firmly a writer: it never occurred to me that I would ever edit any bit of the Guardian, let alone be let loose on the whole thing.

In our personality-cultist age, in which a writer's biography is firmly believed to hold the key to the meaning of his novels, in which the fictionality of fiction is routinely called into question and novels are thought of as real life in disguise, this detail of Houellebecq's life will prompt, has prompted, many a loud "ah-ha!" But, and again but.

Acton received no initial advance for her work but, unlike other female writers, had her name firmly imprinted on the cover.

American writer Sherwood has one eye firmly fixed on Hollywood, but this is still an oddly touching tale.