Writer in sentence

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The subject of this inquiry was a writer named James Baldwin.

By delivering sermons, he developed his voice as a writer, but also grew conflicted about the Church’s stance on racial inequality and homosexuality.

I was so thrilled to find an interview with the great Russian writer, Leo Tolstoy, in a New York newspaper in the early 1900s.

And I had to turn myself from a feature writer into an investigative reporter to do it.

As a young writer who left behind a promising military career, Fyodor had been attracted to ideas of socialism and reform, and joined a circle of intellectuals to discuss radical texts banned by the Imperial government.

And somehow, she got her hands on some DVDs of an American television show in which she saw her own dream of becoming a writer reflected.

And one documentary writer, who was here and looked at this two months after I was here, described this not as beehives but as a graveyard, with these empty white boxes with no bees left in them.

It's about this guy, Paul Rand, who was one of the greatest graphic designers, and also a great writer as well.

The writer who changed my life was the great African American novelist James Baldwin.

And as a writer and as an artist, I care very much about making this comfort of being vulnerable a communal thing, something that we can share with each other.

But it would be worse, except for that I happen to remember that over 20 years ago, when I was a teenager, when I first started telling people that I wanted to be a writer, I was met with this same sort of fear-based reaction.

But it still took me two more years to say, "I'm a writer."

Nine years after I had started writing, before I said, "I'm a writer," because I was afraid of what happens without 401ks, without, "How am I going to keep up my shoe habit?

And as any writer will tell you, there's nothing more terrifying than a blank page.

Now I say "naively" because actually my profession is as a science writer.

For the last few years, I've been a writer in residence at the Stanford Medical School.

Now, I am absolutely not a mental health professional, I'm a writer, which most days is absolutely the complete and total opposite.

I once told a Fortune Magazine writer that someday people like me would go to jail.

But I'm just a writer.

Many of you will realize that I'm ripping a bit off of the science fiction writer Vernor Vinge's notion of a technological singularity, where a number of trends accelerate and converge and come together to create, really, a shockingly new reality.

You know, I don't know if you could use this or not, but I was quoting Wright Morris, a writer from Nebraska, who says, 'We're more and more into communications and less and less into communication.'

And a good writer or orator is one who knows that when he uses a certain word, an average mind will associate it with a certain reference, specific memories will be evoked.

I was also an early writer, and when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, they ate apples, (Laughter) and they talked a lot about the weather, how lovely it was that the sun had come out.

What the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe calls "a balance of stories."

The American writer Alice Walker wrote this about her Southern relatives who had moved to the North.

And you can imagine, if you're a writer, that things would get really crowded around deadlines.

So one of my favorite projects was bringing all this stuff together in an artistic display of an android portrait of science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick, who wrote great works like, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" which was the basis of the movie "Bladerunner."

In her book, "Girls and Sex," writer Peggy Orenstein finds that young women are focusing on their partner's pleasure, not their own.

I'm a writer and a journalist, and I'm also an insanely curious person, so in 22 years as a journalist, I've learned how to do a lot of new things.

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