Use "hack writer" in a sentence

1. All of his earlier attempts to gain fame and fortune failed miserably: all of his attempts to earn a living as a correspondent during the Boer war and as a forger and seller of forged oil paintings and as a hack writer of abridged classical literature and his attempts to gain power in parliament failed and failed and failed…

2. Indeed, those precepts which were but vaguely indicated by certain of the prophets have since been so clearly formulated, have grown to be such truisms, that the very school-boys and hack writers repeat them