He certainly seemed to be almost humanly proud of his literary effort.

Were he living, poor Eliot might have thought his literary effort wasted indeed.

After this success, he left school to focus on his literary efforts.

He said his first literary effort had been rejected by 60 agents.

Her books inspired his first literary effort as a young boy.

So it was quite a literary effort and I spent three hours on it.

He was not ready, however, for serious literary effort.

Their literary efforts account for more than a third of the year's books.

Here he produced his first literary efforts in a student paper.

Serving as a professional writer, he began the literary creative efforts.