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Story-writer   Listen
noun
Story-writer  n.  
1.
One who writes short stories, as for magazines.
2.
An historian; a chronicler. (Obs.) "Rathums, the story-writer."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Story-writer" Quotes from Famous Books



... disunited unity seemed to me a salient feature in cis-Zambesian Africa, it was the differences in that natural ring fence which attracted most of my attention as a story-writer even as a story-writer who so far has only written one tale about it. I began to ask myself how it was that, with one eminent exception, our African fiction writers had confined themselves to the native races, and the friction between these ...
— A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts
... young story-writer to study the old masters in literature or the stories in the current magazines, in order to meet the demands of the ...
— Imaginary Interviews • W. D. Howells
... is rarely able to open it for us. But there is a genius who can open it. The author who can write fiction of the right sort can do it; his is the gift of seeing inner realities, and of showing them to those who cannot see them for themselves. Sharing the imaginative vision of the story-writer, we can truly follow out many other roads of life than our own. The girl on a lone country farm is made to understand how a girl in a city sweating-den feels and lives; the London exquisite realises the life of a Californian ...
— How to Tell Stories to Children - And Some Stories to Tell • Sara Cone Bryant


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