I think serious writers, as you call us, have always worked with the past.

Second, I didn't have a sense of what it takes to be a serious writer.

For decades now, serious writers haven't even been able to make a killing.

Your suffering shows the world, in an extreme form, what every serious writer must face.

Also, he is one of the few serious writers who say yes to American life.

How can any serious writer dismiss an entire generation as not worth writing or reading about?

The serious writer wants to be distinguished from this effort.

This is not the first time corporations have paid for work from a serious writer.

And this is a play by a serious writer going to Broadway.

He is perhaps the best-selling serious writer in our language.