In the good old days of yore, one just had to be a good writer.
In fact, strange as it might sound, I never questioned that I was a good writer.
If you're not a good writer, figure out the keywords and points you need to make, then ask a friend to help you out.
Just as a good writer is best given his rope, so an art director needs conceptual room to convey the rest of the story and to integrate the assorted elements of a magazine.
Not because that fact matters more than the fact that she is smart, and a good writer, and ambitious, and driven, and willful, but because when you are a woman, and you want to get ahead, it really helps if you are pretty.
Very, very good writer and it was an ideal combination because she would write a play for me, I would do it, produce it with a chum and it would all be in the family and we never had to separate you see.
BBC: NEWS | Entertainment | Sir John Mills interviewed in 2002
Whether you agree with Malcolm Gladwell that it takes 10, 000 hours of practice to reach your potential or not, there can be no doubt that it takes hard work, a lot of mistakes, and the ability to recognise and rectify those mistakes to become a good writer.
But he's since had so much exposure and practice that he now actually just is a really good speech writer.
Samuelson is a good economist and writer, but he listens way too much to his fellow economists and frets obsessively on deficits, balanced budgets and the like.
Affleck first made his name as the co-writer of Good Will Hunting, for which he and co-star Matt Damon won an Oscar for best original screenplay.
Is this any way for a writer as good as Jacobson is to tackle such important issues as the tensions between the religious and the secular and the persistence of and sting of anti-Semitism?
This was good training for a writer, for the sooner you accept the fact that you are a deluded idiot who is always out of step with reality the better off you will be.
Mr Quammen is a lively writer and a good detective, tracing diseases from their first appearance back to their origins in some cases, still unsettled.
Ms. PROSE: So the fact that they're worried may actually be a good sign, and every writer I know - I mean there's a wonderful phrase of William Burroughs, and he talks about the temptation to take your work and tear it up into tiny little pieces and throw it in somebody else's wastepaper basket.
Good writing creates a dialogue between writer and reader, with the imagined reader at moments questioning, criticizing, and sometimes, you hope, assenting.
WSJ: Word Craft: Tracy Kidder and Richard Todd on Good Prose
In a fabulous lecture discussing true motivators of human behavior (in a nutshell: self-direction and to master good ideas and worthwhile skills) writer Daniel Pink describes Atlassian Software.
Most good fiction also has a character the writer seems to know more deeply than anyone can actually be known in life, but a few unusual writers can make something great without that.
Simply put, these programs are all darned good: Even the worst scoring program, smART writer from Chatsworth, Calif.
Mr. MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN (Staff Writer, The Times-Picayune): Good morning.
Mr. RUBEN NAVARRETTE (Syndicated Writer, The Washington Post Writers Group): Good.
Some will doubtless point out (as this writer has many times) that falling prices are a good thing, and that they by definition materialize in advanced economies.
All this is a good sign, for it confirms the position in which a contemporary writer ought to stand toward another, greater, writer he is bent on imitating.
Mr. HOWARD BRYANT (Senior Writer, ESPN.com, ESPN The Magazine): Good morning, Scott.
The writer-director Philippe Falardeau develops the pleasing routines of a good school.
With this book, the fruit of research in an impressive list of obscure archives, Mr Barnes not only joins the ranks of those journalists able to give academics a good run for their money, but also shows himself to be a travel writer of distinction.
Today good ideas get a three- to five-page treatment and are sent to a writer, sometimes a freelance one.
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