William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.

As a writer on the theater, I have paid close attention to the plays.

The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..

The writer took a class of college students to the state hospital for the mentally ill in St. Joseph, Missouri.

But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

Entrance into such stellar song writing company encouraged the burgeoning song writer to take a wife, Elizabeth Meehan, a dancer in the Gaieties.

he often uses very odd rhythms, which makes it difficult, and challenging, for the lyric writer ''.

It so happened that sports writer Arthur Robinson got out of the hospital that morning after promising his doctor that he be back in an hour or two to continue his convalescence.

He was ghost writer for Babe Ruth, whose main talent for literary composition was the signing of his autograph.

Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.

We therefore leave the writer to the enjoyment of the unenvied reputation which the personal abuse he has heaped on us will entitle him to from the low and vulgar herd to which he belongs ''.

One such is Abraham Meyer, the writer of a recent book, Speaking Of Man.

Near Southampton, in a considerable establishment, lived Homer Vachell, a well-known pulp writer, and his brother, Horace -- both friends of Lewis's.

like Malraux he was also serving in the tank corps before being captured, and we learn as well that in civilian life he had been a writer.

the combination of the Jewish intellectual tradition and the sensibility needed to be a writer created in my circle the most potent and incredible intellectual-literary ambition I have ever seen or could ever have imagined.

An out-of-town writer came up to Paul Richards today and asked the Oriole manager if he thought his ball club would be improved this year.

`` That is undoubtedly a hell of a quote '', said the writer, scratching his head.

I disagree with the writer who says funeral services should be government-controlled.

The letter writer who suggested saving money by taking kids out of school at 14 should have signed his letter `` simpleton '' instead of `` simplicitude ''.

A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.

She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash, and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury.

Duclos understood what was bothering Rousseau: that the writer of the Prosopopoeia of Fabricius should now become known as the writer of an amusing little operetta.

* 1949 – Scott Turow, American writer

* 1973 – J. Scott Campbell, American writer and illustrator

* 1883 – Scott Nearing, American writer and educator ( d. 1983 )

* 1940 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer ( b. 1896 )

* F. Scott Fitzgerald, an American writer

* 1934 – N. Scott Momaday, American writer

In summary, " For a writer whose early novels set in Scotland were prized for their historical accuracy, Scott was remarkably loose with the facts when he wrote Ivanhoe ...

* 1967 – Scott Oden, American writer

Jay Scott Greenspan ( born September 23, 1959 ), better known by his professional name of Jason Alexander, is an American actor, director, producer, writer, singer, and comedian.

His first job in New York was as a writer of the streetcar card ads for a company that previously had employed another Baltimore resident, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

* 2005 – L. Neil Smith ( writer ) and Scott Bieser ( illustrator ), The Probability Broach: The Graphic Novel

Travel writer Paul Theroux summarised Scott as " confused and demoralised ... an enigma to his men, unprepared and a bungler ".

The following month, DC Comics premiered American Vampire, a monthly comic book series written by King with short story writer Scott Snyder, and illustrated by Rafael Albuquerque, which represents King's first original comics work.

However, others came to King's defense, such as writer Orson Scott Card, who responded:

In contrast, the novels of Scott's contemporary Jane Austen, once appreciated only by the discerning few ( including, as it happened, Sir Walter Scott himself ) rose steadily in critical esteem, though Austen, as a female writer, was still faulted for her narrow (" feminine ") choice of subject matter, which, unlike Scott, avoided the grand historical themes traditionally viewed as masculine.

* August 24 – Orson Scott Card, American writer

* September 24 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer ( d. 1940 )

** Shane Scott, American director, writer, producer, cinematographer, editor, musician

* December 21 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer ( b. 1896 )

* March 1 – Paul Scott, English writer ( b. 1920

** Scott O ' Dell, children's writer and winner of 5 Newbery Awards ( b. 1898 )

* September 21 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer ( b. 1771 )

* Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald

The film also features, as " witnesses ," interviews with the 98-year old radical educator and peace activist Scott Nearing ( 1883 – 1983 ), author Dorothy Frooks ( 1896 – 1997 ), reporter and author George Seldes ( 1890 – 1995 ), civil liberties advocate Roger Baldwin ( 1884 – 1981 ), and the American writer Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), among others.