Perhaps then, asked the writer, she would have breakfast with him.

These writers ask for a verdict on a decade of greed.

Better writers can ask $500,000 a year, plus early advances on profits.

The writers will ask members of the public to call Disney and protest.

No writer or publisher could ask for a greater reward.

When a writer asked about his suffering, Brosius cut him off.

He added that the writer should ask her fellow board members to direct the agent to provide the records she needs.

Many writers, when starting with an idea for a situation, ask themselves a different sort of question: "Whom will this hurt?"

So, he said, the writer should ask whether there was a written commitment for the 6 percent rate.

It sounded like the kind of thing a writer would ask, and I wanted to get them talking.