writing-school

It was followed by equally satirical mini-masterpieces, notably the demolition of the “Famous Writers” racket, in which supposed men of letters like Bennett Cerf put their names to a rip-off writing-school scheme, and by “Checks and Balances at the Sign of the Dove,” certainly the finest revenge ever taken by a customer on a pretentious restaurant.

Poison Pen 2006

It was followed by equally satirical mini-masterpieces, notably the demolition of the “Famous Writers” racket, in which supposed men of letters like Bennett Cerf put their names to a rip-off writing-school scheme, and by “Checks and Balances at the Sign of the Dove,” certainly the finest revenge ever taken by a customer on a pretentious restaurant.

Poison Pen 2006

Edwin Frank: I'm not sure, in any case, that Dreiser's famously lousy style isn't a virtue, even the main virtue of his work; that it isn't precisely in the ragged texture of his text -- rather than the well-observed concrete particulars that modern-day journalism and writing-school students are alike taught to gather like posies mostly missing from Dreiser's work -- that the reality of whatever his realism may be emerges.

Archive 2004-06-01 2004

I have not been to a writing-school, nor yet gone thro 'a regular course of Copy-lines at home.

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

Obviously it became a great writing-school, where the copyists consciously or unconsciously wrote according to the prevailing fashion of the place; and there have been, and there are, experts who could tell you whether this or that document was or was not written in this or that monastic Scriptorium.

The Coming of the Friars Augustus Jessopp 1868

The boys looked at it, and a Beggar, who had formerly been in a writing-school and now looked like a sea-bear, said:

The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

The boys looked at it, and a Beggar, who had formerly been in a writing-school and now looked like a sea-bear, said:

The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 05 Georg Ebers 1867

So for one winter, as my health was bad and I was frequently ill, for a long time I was allowed to do nothing but attend a writing-school kept by a Mr. Rand.

Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

But Philip's scrawl was like that of 'a' clown just admitted to a writing-school, and the whole margin of a fairly penned despatch perhaps fifty pages long; laid before him for comment and signature by

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

But Philip's scrawl was like that of 'a' clown just admitted to a writing-school, and the whole margin of a fairly penned despatch perhaps fifty pages long; laid before him for comment and signature by

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845