| Despite her best intentions, ultimately she's trying to find the sort of writerly perfection that leads to embalmed craft. |
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| It's a really writerly idea, sort of the filmic equivalent of a concept album. |
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| Seriously, this site has provoked my writerly instincts and definitely fed my Cyke jones. |
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| Unvarnished first impressions can rapidly get turned on their head if the tide of opinion in these writerly conclaves runs too hard against them. |
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| His account of Defoe's popular success is a clue to his own writerly ambitions. |
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| Gurdjieff also demonstrated more humble writerly skills, including the ability to accept advice from others and persistence in face of failure. |
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| The proletariat is now an important trope of modernity worthy of the writerly gaze. |
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| That's interesting, because in a way that's a very writerly method, in that you did your rough draft and then your final draft. |
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| This is no different from the writerly desires that have driven the makers of literature for centuries. |
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| I want to say that Campion's An Angel at My Table is faithful to Frame's autobiography, specifically to the writerly vision of the writer's life. |
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| But the surest way to writerly independence is a big readership and a well-known name, which is exactly what Winfrey was offering him. |
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| This delicious, melancholic vision both romanticises the subject and bathes the object in writerly, almost heroic solitude. |
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| Our book's approach is literary and writerly, focusing on the form and acknowledging the literary impulse in nonfiction. |
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| The way she chooses to write highlights this crucial interdependency between the sited event and its writerly structure. |
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| Alas, it is true that Didion is a writer full of writerly tricks of a type that can be made fun of, rather like Hemingway. |
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| It's difficult to tell when this anachronism is deliberate, and when it is merely a lack of writerly control. |
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| This dogma is supposed to free the writerly side of one's brain for unconstrained truth-telling. |
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| That way you can skip stuff that bores you to tears and get straight to the meaty heart of my writerly goodness. |
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| I've got the usual collection of writerly type books that I keep at hand. |
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| In other words, both writers eventually adopted an almost permanent writerly silence during their last years, seeking out a more direct means of reproducing mental images. |
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| The writerly urge to kiss and tell may have wrecked the occasional romance, but readers reaped the rewards. |
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| She's small with big eyes framed by laughter lines and is dressed entirely in black, but that seems to be the extent of any macabre crime writerly persona. |
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| Sikelianos attempts to untangle some complex knots in this book, and it is a testament to her writerly scope that she succeeds in doing so with wit and humor. |
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| But the persona, writerly and otherwise, that I've invested so much time grooming over the past few decades just doesn't marry up with sleekness and throbbing muscly health. |
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| Cavarero writes generically complex tales of the narratable self, reviving the writerly tradition of Roland Barthes, and echoing his recognition of eros, love, and desire. |
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| The complication of Loden's writerly comic procedure is all in the nuances and gestures of meaning conveyed by particular word-choices, tones and implications. |
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| Indeed, the narrative structure of the first half is, as Jameson has suggested, of a writerly nature and schizophrenic in its narrative loops and turns. |
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| Despite that, he seems happy in a writerly isolate's sort of way. |
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| He's 6ft 4in with a strikingly handsome face, a writerly beard and a thick mane of swept back silvery hair. |
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| Chinese immigrants crammed 20 to a room toil alongside young, white artists sporting ironic tattoos and writerly goatees. |
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| I love the writerly philosophical side to Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Nick Cave's songwriting. |
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| In this sense, not a scholarly sense, but a writerly one, Shakespeare might well have been the greatest reader who ever lived. |
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| The kernel of truth at the centre of an emotion is best discovered with the writerly equivalent of controlled burning, that is, a fearlessly wielded red pen. |
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| She deploys Roland Barthes's notion of readerly and writerly texts to contextualize Bulosan's social realism and Yamamoto's heretofore overlooked experimentalism. |
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| High modernist author Georges Perec, for instance, comically suggested that there are exactly 243 writerly possibilities for the postcard message. |
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| On the road towards major debates of the later twentieth century, Krutch considered aspects of writerly intention, and how these intersected with writerly self-critique. |
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| So goes the insecure writerly mind in the dark hours. |
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| If this is Lily talking, she sounds very writerly, very Will Self. In fact, between them, they sometimes manage to say something more serious and moral than their no-flies-on-me snarl suggests. |
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| And though she was early taken in hand by a writerly intelligence, it was hardly in the power of the manual alphabet to pry out a writer who was not already there. |
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| He is, in his way, a cynical, macho, writerly version of Joan of Arc. |
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| Both books are archetypical of a certain type of writerly fantasy. |
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| His purpose is to unearth what he calls a polytype text, a text that is scriptible, writerly, open to the play of meanings. |
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| It was a correspondence, from first to last, of an unusual intensity. Although they were both New Englanders, their writerly temperaments were quite different. |
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