Sentences with phrase «as novelist marilynne»

I admit it: I get a vicarious thrill every time I read about a lawyer who finds success as a novelist.

As Boston Globe writer David Mehegan reports today in his article, His Cases Have Become Mysterious: Lawyer - turned - novelist digs up dirt in old Boston, Landay, 43, went straight from his job as an assistant district attorney to a career as a novelist.

As novelist David Lodge observes about the satisfactions provided by solved mystery stories in both fiction and in law: «A solved mystery is ultimately reassuring to readers, asserting the triumph of reason over instinct, of order over anarchy.»

«Lawyer Finds Success as Novelist Main Warning: Blogging Can Render You Ineligible for Malpractice Insurance»

Graduating Summa Cum Laude from Harvard Medical School, Michael Crichton chose to forego his residency and internship in order to advance his budding career as a novelist.

Einarsson and Faldbakken first met in 1999, when the latter was working primarily as a novelist, still in the early stages of his career as a visual artist.

As novelist Ali Smith notes, «Sara Barker's work is primarily about the space it makes, and the space left by it, the meaning that's both present and absent».

Kusama returned to Japan in 1973 but has continued to develop her mirrored installations, and over the years, she has attained cult status, not only as an artist, but as a novelist.

Purposefully creating tension between volume and space in her work, she writes, «I want to celebrate the complex internal conflict that vitalizes life, using the particular experiences of my life as building blocks, as a novelist might.»

As the novelist and critic Ross Feld, who began a close friendship with Philip Guston in 1976, has pointed out, «Some of the legs look as heavy as stone, others like corrugated piping, still others like fleshless casings» (Ross Feld, «Philip Guston», in Philip Guston, exhibition catalogue, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco 1980, p. 28).

In the beginning, I saw it more as a right and obligation that I had as an artist to be willing to engage with all parts of the world, just as any novelist or screenwriter would.

Gao Xingjian is a famous Chinese artist, primarily known as a novelist and the first Chinese - language Nobel Laurate, but as well as a praised painter and critic.

[55] Richard Murphy also comments: «the search for an all - inclusive definition is problematic to the extent that the most challenging expressionists» such as the novelist Franz Kafka, poet Gottfried Benn, and novelist Alfred Döblin were simultaneously the most vociferous anti-expressionists.

It sees, in the passage from Chardin's world of objects to Rembrandt's contemplative paintings, a movement toward the radical interiority for which Proust would later become widely celebrated as a novelist.

Playing as a novelist who finds himself trapped in a storyline of his own creation, the game blends intense psychological horror with frantic action as you use light to battle back shadowy forces.

Luke Waterson on Some of the Challenges Posed When Writing About the Amazon Basin — as a travel writer and as a novelist At school we might have drawn pictures of how we imagined it, or studied its decline in.....

As novelist Upton Sinclair, presumably not a fan of efficient markets, said, «It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!»

Prominent Editor's Exit Is Setback for Amazon Publishing Unit — This is pretty interesting, because Ed Park came to Amazon as a novelist, and as a first - time editor, he was given his own literary fiction imprint.

As a novelist, my job is to build a world that immerses the reader in a way that feels rich, deep, and most of all, true.»

In a way that many of her fans, new and old, will appreciate, Pessl has grown as a novelist in Night Film.

http://pursuitofajoyfullife.com/2014/01/26/what-students-remember-most-about-teachers/ I think I need to take this advice as a novelist also.

Once established as a novelist, I found I was often asked for writing advice.

One of my goals as a novelist is to try indie publishing and traditional publishing to find out what works best for me as I work toward my writing and publishing goals.

I wonder if some people will always want something solid, complete, «finished,» as the novelist he mentioned said.

As a novelist, I disagree, and I'm going to outline why.

In KU 1.0, however, where every title was treated the same regardless of size, and where buyers weren't limited in how many titles they could read, they read a lot of short stories, but the authors got paid the same as a novelist for each title read (well, 10 % read, which could be just 2 - 3 pages).

It's all very romantic to claim that as a novelist, you're a creative spirit with no head for the mundanities of business and marketing.

«As a novelist,» she says, «my own personal interest in pursuing better data was to understand the market and my own prospects.

I won't second - guess Wolfe; some people say that Wolfe has proven himself as a novelist in «Bonfire of the Vanities.»

If you want to try to find an agent or manager, fine, but don't think that once you have an agent or manager it's all going to be smooth sailing and you're going to be working full time as a novelist.

In addition to a thriving career as a novelist, author Darin Gibby is also one of the country's premiere patent attorneys and a partner at the prestigious firm of Kilpatrick Townsend (www.kilpatricktownsend.com).

As a novelist, I'm curious: Is there one publisher that publishes more Christian fiction than any other publisher?

Now, as a novelist, he brings a philosophical perspective to classic storylines.

As a novelist who has published over twenty books, I've written both -LSB-...]

Scott Sigler built an audience and a career as a novelist with free serialized audiobooks.

I was sure that once I graduated, I would launch a brilliant career as a novelist.

Hiring these pros isn't cheap, but your reputation as a novelist is at stake, and you might improve your chances of getting published by a traditional house.

AQ: I made New York City a major character in this book because I thought it would make my task as a novelist easier.

Harriet's position as a novelist also allows for Sayers to get in some marvelous jabs on the subject of writing:

She stayed at the top of her game throughout her 30 - year career as a novelist — as this quote from our review of her final novel proves: «There's a good chance that many readers, like this one, will consider Minding Frankie one of Binchy's best novels yet.»

Russell Banks has exhibited an astonishingly imaginative range throughout his distinguished career as a novelist, and his uniquely realistic American voice, on display in such modern classics as Rule of the Bone and Continental Drift, continues to shine in this latest effort.

The grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien makes a thrilling debut as a novelist in this suspenseful courtroom drama that will have you guessing to the very end.

Truth is, all of my deals, large and small, have been agented since I'm too busy writing, either as a novelist or journalist.

What drew you to the suspense / thriller format as a novelist?

Smith's reputation as a novelist gets bigger with every book.

Has Anna Quindlen achieved more success as a novelist or a columnist?

Wolf has moved from strength to strength, from his early success as the creator of TV's «Law & Order» to his more recent incarnation as novelist.

As a novelist and reader, I think characters who are either complete demons or saints are boring.

And yet, as novelist David Treuer wryly observes in his sobering yet quietly redemptive book, Rez Life, in spite of how involved Indians have been in America's business, most people will go a lifetime without ever knowing an Indian or spending time on an...

What tools as a novelist does Galassi use to paint a portrait of life in the city, both in and out of the publishing industry, that is at once cutthroat and romantic?