Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(7)
(For writers, happy is hard).
Are writers happy they became writers?
By Avi Steinberg February 8, 2013 Are writers happy they became writers?
His life, from the outside, seems so replete, so purposeful, so – not a word one usually associates with writers – happy.
Bellow taught for years at the University of Chicago, and was among the most intellectual of American writers, happy to throw around allusions to Hegel and Pascal, but who also took lifelong pleasure in burlesquing "the professors".
These are writers happy to work within the crime field, extremely genre-literate in a post-Tarantino kind of way, but there's a sense that for the most part they're knowingly catering to a minority audience of crime buffs.
Similar(53)
Dec. 4. ADAPTATION -- Nothing makes most writers happier than writing about themselves.
Mentions seeing a field of joe-pye weed which made writer happy and giddy because it was so unexpected.
"A major headache behind the scenes on Broadway is the producer-playwright relationship, because sometimes you have to produce some things on Broadway that really aren't good enough to be there, just to keep your writer happy," said Elizabeth I. McCann, a producer who helped revive Mr. Albee's career in New York in the 1990s, starting with "Three Tall Women".
While the apparently affectless children supply enough "thriller" elements to keep a blurb-writer happy, School's Out is really a philosophical novel in the great tradition of Gide, Sartre and Camus, a serious consideration of existential alienation in contemporary French society.
Observer verdict: 'He is a wonderfully amphibious writer, happy in all manner of elements' · Robert MacFarlane Odds: 8/1 Peter Carey True History of the Kelly Gang Faber £16.99, pp351 Carey is another previous winner (for Oscar and Lucinda in 1988) and this novel also takes up a historical story - the biography of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly, told in his own voice.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com