Writing is essential to many professional careers but can also be a career itself. Most freelance writers of fiction, drama, or poetry must support their work with secondary jobs unless they have produced a bestseller or achieved an outstanding—...

A fine writer chooses his brushes carefully. (Korean) A good writer is not choosy about his brushes. (Korean) Even the best ink-brush does not make one a fine writer. (Korean) Even the best writer has to erase. (Spanish) One quill is better in the hand...

A CALL seller in an option market who sells OPTIONS against shares he or she already owns in order to improve their...

Although writers have explored the relationship between humans and the natural world for centuries, they primarily viewed the environment as subordinate to the needs of civilization and human progress. However, by the middle of the nineteenth century,...

A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. The word is almost synonymous with author, although somebody who...

Writers, producers reach deal Tentative 3-year contract averts strike Associated Press Saturday, May 5, 2001 Los Angeles -- Negotiators for Hollywood writers announced a "groundbreaking" three-year contract with producers Friday, saying they will recommend that all 11,500 guild member writers...

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His friends all tell similar stories: Norman Mailer at a dinner party, awards ceremony or afternoon gathering, hobbling on canes up or down a few steps or a flight of stairs, short of breath, as if getting from one place to another was a struggle...

Faced with the indefinite suspension of negotiations, the union representing striking Hollywood writers told its members Saturday it would try to deal directly with Hollywood studios and production companies, bypassing the umbrella organization that has been representing them.The news was welcomed by the company that...