In the course of reporting a long article or book, writers will talk to many sources and try to gain their confidence.

The writers talked to the converted, and there was no need for contumely.

Indeed, across the nation, writers everywhere are talking to their shrinks about this very thing.

"So many writers talk about their painful early lives."

Two writers, alone in a room, will talk about royalties not art.

The family's writers talked all of it through, often at length.

But usually what the speaker or writer is talking about is at the head of the sentence.

It is a shame the writer did not talk to some students who were published, to share their pride.

Often only a writer who has been allowed to follow his editor will talk publicly on the subject.

Most writers I've talked to retain vivid memories of their first books.