Portuguese English Dictionary

português - English

o escritor in English:

1. writer writer


He is a writer.
My friends say I'm a prolific writer, but I haven't written anything for months.
I want you to search high and low for a writer who's just right for this project. Leave no stone unturned.
There is one thing which we do every time we read, whether we are aware of it or not; we come in contact with the personality of the writer.
It is no use being a writer if one is not in sympathy with the world in which one is living.
An effective writer is one who knows what sort of words should be employed in any specific context.
Clearness should be a guiding principle of every technical writer.
A writer, whose name I have forgotten, wrote this novel.
One becomes a good writer just as one becomes a good carpenter: by planing down one's sentences.
With the appearance of a promising new writer, the aging novelist fell from prominence.
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
After a while, my father got angry and said “It seems your wife will not stoop to being a substitute writer!”
The book's weak-point is that it lacks credibility when a married writer recommends remaining unmarried.
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

English word "o escritor"(writer) occurs in sets:

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2. author author


He's an author.
The author is seventy, but he's no less productive than he was twenty years ago.
You have to read between the lines to know the true intention of the author.
Every author suffers from writer's block from time to time.
Yea... Dima continued, talking mostly to himself. "It's as if the author of my story got into some stupid argument, retired to Fiji, and just left me here to rot."
According to the author Joe Marconi, books that are labeled "Harvard Classics" can demand twice the price.
Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade,—all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.
I don't know the theater play, but I know the author well.
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.
According to some sources, Noam Chomsky is the most cited living author.
someone who writes a book, article, "a popular author of children's fiction"
Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.
The author pins the crime on a character who pops up in the last chapter of this book.
The weak point of this book is that it's less than persuasive when the married author recommends not being married.
What cultural differences did the author find in working with Dutch and American students?

English word "o escritor"(author) occurs in sets:

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