writers

[Writ·er]

A person who is able to write and has written something

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One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.

Noun
writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)

Noun
a person who is able to write and has written something


n.
One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.

n.
One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.

n.
A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.


Writer

Writ"er , n. [AS. wr'c6tere.] 1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
They [came] that handle the pen of the writer.
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.
This pitch, as ancient writers do report, doth defile.
3. A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor. Writer of the tallies (Eng. Law), an officer of the exchequer of England, who acted as clerk to the auditor of the receipt, and wrote the accounts upon the tallies from the tellers' bills. The use of tallies in the exchequer has been abolished. Wharton (Law. Dict.) -- Writer's cramp, palsy, ∨ spasm (Med.), a painful spasmodic affection of the muscles of the fingers, brought on by excessive use, as in writing, violin playing, telegraphing, etc. Called also scrivener's palsy. -- Writer to the signet. See under Signet.

One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.

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Usage Examples

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees with the writer about what's cool.

Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.

Chemistry is not anything an executive producer or writer can orchestrate or plan you just hope for it.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

But you cannot expect every writer to dwell on human suffering. I think my books do deal with grave issues. People who say they are too positive probably haven't read them.

But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

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