Sentence examples for writers off from inspiring English sources

But if that's not all, the computer screen itself is enough to put some writers off completely.

"Even though I understand the temptation, I think it cuts writers off from society, and creates an unhealthy link with institutions," he told La Croix.

"Even though I understand the temptation," he explains, "I think it cuts writers off from society, and creates an unhealthy link with institutions" — forgetting, perhaps, that the Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel, is one of the most prestigious institutions of them all.

This has not put later writers off Vlad's story.

He narcissistically complains about how the events of that day threw him and other fiction writers off stride.

As soon as you start, they say, 'You aren't getting rid of it, are you?'" He once heard a septuagenarian telling young graffiti writers off – not for spraying on walls per se but for scrawling tags over more sophisticated pieces.

The book will be sprinkled with "bits about famous writers and their reputations," according to Mr. Magnuson, but he considers real-life aspiring writers off-limits.

For example, the writers off-handedly mention that members must run nine Road Runners races and volunteer at another to get guaranteed admission to the New York City Marathon.

He lets the writer off at the Taft Hotel.

He dropped the writer off at a shopping center in Kent.

And some are utter hucksterism, intended to start the writer off with premises so bland that the results would have to be… well, a Pixar movie.