Writer describes "Spirit".
The topic at hand: the effect of landscape on a writer's spirit.
Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.
Danny Conant's "Transformations" combine fragments of letters and documents with translucent portraits, implying that the writer's spirit inhabits the text.
He spoke at about 350 words a minute, fast-track, fluent and sparkling Welsh waffle that broke many a shorthand-writer's spirit.
Sitting alongside the Beatrix Potter Society's patron Patricia Routledge, she will be part of a women's quintet that should compensate the writer's spirit for the Victorian snub.
Something inside him, which could perhaps, without too great a risk of error, be called the writer's spirit, trapped him in a limbo of apparent passivity, and began to harden or change him, or prepare him for future surprises.
Certainly those who teach writing courses at the graduate level answer with a "no" as pounding as cannon fire, although to be fair it must be said that probably none had yet read a book quite like Ms. Lerner's message to the writer's spirit.
The explanation of what the vapour enshrouds is best left to Conrad's finest statement about the fundamental truth of fiction, published in the New York Times Saturday Review on August 2 1901: Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous abnegation.
— Eric Asimov The Atlantic: The Absolut end: "If spirits writers and apocalyptic cults are right and the world actually ends in 2012, it will be because of the new wave of flavored vodkas that evoke a stream of childhood memories".
