Origin of writer
Related Words for writercorrespondent, author, reporter, critic, columnist, poet, novelist, dramatist, journalist, editor, biographer, essayist, screenwriter, contributor, scribe, wordsmith, scribbler, stenographer, freelancer, stringer
Examples from the Web for writer
Contemporary Examples of writer
In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.Houellebecq’s Incendiary Novel Imagines France With a Muslim President
January 9, 2015
Spencer, 27, is variously described as a writer and a stand-up comic.Meet Stephen Fry’s Future Husband (Who Is Less Than Half His Age)
January 6, 2015
His father, a writer, and his mother, who worked in insurance, were flawless.The Story of the World’s Greatest Cricket Player
December 24, 2014
Can you imagine Superman being handed over to a writer just a notch above amateur?
From writer Gail Simone to artist Fiona Staples, there are incredible women already working in the industry.
Historical Examples of writer
He gave the writer of the note sixpence and a barrel pen for his trouble.
The writer further says the metal was made from silver coins.
There is no writer of to-day who will be read twenty years after he is dead.Ballads of a Bohemian
Robert W. Service
Let us consider, again, how preference in a writer is established.The Man Shakespeare
But how had the writer of the ill-spelled missive known of that matter?Thoroughbreds
W. A. Fraser
Old English writere "one who can write, clerk; one who produces books or literary compositions," agent noun from writan (see write (v.)). Meaning "sign-painter" is from 1837. Writer's cramp attested by 1853; writer's block by 1950.