Sentence examples for writers attempt from inspiring English sources

"The best writers attempt to become alternative historians," he said.

Sometimes the writers attempt a little winsome humour to make themselves sound less complacent.

I took part in NaNoWriMo, a competition where writers attempt to write 50,000 words in one month.

"Deliverance" is the kind of novel few serious writers attempt any longer, a book about wilderness and survival whose DNA contains shards of both "Heart of Darkness" and "Huckleberry Finn".

A reviewer in The Washington Post called it "a wide-screen science fiction epic of the type few writers attempt any more, probably because nobody until Vinge has ever done it well".

"All writers attempt to look for a truth that can be revealed in no other way but fiction," she says, "but André goes about it in the most remarkable and interesting way".

During the 1960s Greek prose writers attempted to explore the historical factors underlying the contemporary social and political situation.

Though few American writers attempted to experiment in the vein in which James Joyce had in Ulyssses, Chicago writer Jesse Ball led the way with The Curfew, his third novel.

A few years ago, a few video game writers attempted to create something called "new games journalism".

The letters she forged make a mockery of writers' attempts to seek out the truth when researching books.

As the psychological novel developed in the 20th century, some writers attempted to capture the total flow of their characters' consciousness, rather than limit themselves to rational thoughts.