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Later, several hack writers wrote serial stories on the same theme.

There is nothing wrong with being a hack writer.

I never want to be a hack writer, turning out adventure merely for the money.

Self-destructive behaviour saw him end his life as a hack writer in London.

He's gaming version of a human interest story seem like the work of a hack writer.

"So you prefer a hack writer to me, do you?"

He took on a number of miscellaneous jobs as a hack writer but always found himself short of money.

-1791) was an English law clerk and hack writer, known for light verse.

Perhaps even Karl Marx was invented, the product of some hack writer.

I'm just an old soldier and harmless hack writer; I'm not used to such adventures.

It is similar to calling someone a hack writer or a slob but specific to practitioners of magic in these stories.

It isn't hard being a hack writer.

He was a hack writer for prewar true-confession magazines.

Eventually, the term became a metonym for hack writers.

Patten, however, never received any royalties for them, being paid up to $150 per story as a hack writer.

The novel's central character and narrator is Gennadi, a self-confessed hack writer.

Not this old hack writer.

Libelous literature written by hack writers was aimed at the monarchy, and those associated with it and the Church.

A number of films have depicted hack writers, perhaps because the way these authors are "prostituting" their creative talents makes them an interesting character study.

-1774) started his literary career as a hack writer in London, writing on any subject that would pay enough to keep his creditors at bay.

In Dr. Shaftel's case, he became what he called a hack writer.

He meets his faintly rebellious friends, other hack writers, and gradually sinks into the enjoyable hassles of Moscow life.

Authors who create potboiler novels or screenplays are sometimes called hack writers or hacks.

Machejek was a political hack writer.