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Some use a pseudonym, similar to what writers and artists have been doing for many years, either for protection and security, or because their real name, Hildibob Slibbervitzenson, just isn't "writerly" or "artistic."— The Blog Herald
He much liked the subject and was already aspiring for a writerly life.— California Literary Review
A panel of literary pundits, including Azar Nafisi, Rick Moody and Edwidge Danticat, assess his memoir Dreams from My Father and tell us what they think his writerly-ways might portend for his term in the Oval Office.— Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
To which the answer is that, despite the flaws of structure noted above, it is not journalism, but a serious, writerly, self-critical account of what it means to feel that, despite love and hope and good intentions, you have failed as a parent, and that the child you bore (while still eerily, painfully familiar) is lost to you.— Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
So what if no great American poets wait in the writerly wings?— Books, Inq. — The Epilogue

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