Sentences with phrase «ya novelist»

And then there's what bestselling novelist Harlan Coben — the perfect guy to read when you want a long plane trip to fly by — writes in his new book, Don't Let Go.

This October one of America's most lauded novelists is taking direct aim at tech culture and its effects on our lives.

-- Ayn Rand, novelist

I asked Peper whether there might be anything entrepreneurs could learn from a novelist.

Novelists and founders often make the same mistake: we care so much about what we're making that we assume others should too.

For instance, best - selling novelist Miranda Beverly - Whittemore confesses to being «a bed - lingerer» in Women's Health.

The Italian novelist Umberto Eco famously said in the 1990s that Apple was like Catholicism in that its followers had to adhere to one way of doing things, while Microsoft (you could say Google nowadays) was more akin to Protestantism, which gave followers more latitude to reach their own conclusions and organize themselves accordingly.

Leo Tolstoy, the celebrated Russian novelist and essayist, born on this day in 1828, is rarely cited for his entrepreneurial wisdom.

BookFunnel was started in 2015 by fantasy novelist Damon Courtney, who became frustrated when he couldn't create links for free book promotions; it helps authors do giveaways and build readership.

Ford's father was a travelling salesman, the Pulitzer - winning American novelist tells us in the introduction to this collection of short fiction, and he kept that job through the Depression, the Second World War, and the entire 1950s, a time when your job was in some ways synonymous with your character.

The novelist Phillip Roth called Thanksgiving «the American pastoral par excellence and it lasts twenty - four hours,» so enjoy the holiday to its fullest.

Johnson, a young - adult novelist, has more than 80,600 followers on Twitter, so the image reached a lot of eyeballs.

Combined net worth: $ 92.7 billionJeff Bezos, the world's richest person, has been married for over 24 years to novelist Mackenzie Bezos after they met working at an investment firm.

So it should come as no surprise that science fiction novelists are playing a more direct role in Silicon Valley.

Poet and Novelist Helen Dunmore declared long walks as the best means for crystalizing ideas and for writing fiction.

Since then, Vanderbilt's high - ranking undergraduate program has produced hundreds of notable alumni, including two NASA astronauts, best - selling novelist James Patterson, and Ann Moore, the first female CEO of Time Inc..

Why she's awesome: Bezos is a best - selling novelist who won the National Book Award for «The Testing of Luther Albright.»

David Foster Wallace, the American novelist and essay writer, was beloved during his lifetime for his stylistic invention and heartfelt, if erratic, genius.

Life as an outdoorsman inadvertently made him a novelist.

Other surprising people quoted in the book include feminist author Betty Friedan, anti-Trump novelist Junot Díaz, anti-Trump actress Cynthia Nixon, and «The Art of War» writer Sun Tzu.

In March, thriller novelist Chris Fox produced a daily Youtube video in which he showed the exact process he followed to write and publish a complete novel in just 21 days.

«I think that every novelist has a single ideal reader; that at various points during the composition of a story, the writer is thinking, «I wonder what he / she will think when he / she reads this part?»

In 2015, King wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times asking «Can a Novelist Be Too Productive?»

Check out 23 icons who served in the armed forces, including a baseball great, two famous reclusive novelists, and one «Golden Girl.»

Novelist MacKenzie Bezos favors wedge - heeled sneakers by Ash, while Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wears more affordable Jack Purcells.

Similarly, few novelists have tapped into this era's motivations, anxieties and cultural eccentricities as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities did in the eighties or Jonathan Franzen managed a decade later with The Corrections.

Some of its best - known alumni include President Woodrow Wilson, billionaire Michael Bloomberg, novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and film director Wes Craven.

It's as useful for business owners and marketers looking to captivate customers as it is for novelists and movie pros.

Thanks to a Los Angeles auction house, one of the great American novelists will continue to live on as a collector's item.

You'd be hard - pressed to name another novelist who has anywhere near the international recognition as Joanne Rowling.

Bestselling novelists Suzanne Collins of The Hunger Games and Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl wrote their own screenplays.

The series centers on American novelist Michael Peterson, who was convicted in 2003 of murdering his second wife, Kathleen Peterson, after she was found dead at the bottom of their staircase in their North Carolina home.

«The future is already here,» sci - fi novelist William Gibson is often quoted as saying.

Hugo was first explored by the French in 1718 and later named in honor of French novelist Victor Hugo.

American novelist Ernest Hemingway spent time and is buried in Ketchum.

But novelists have recognized it more than economists.

While Amazon has its defenders — the novelist Barry Eisler wrote in The Guardian this week that the publishing industry has been run «for decades in a way that has benefited the few while stifling new opportunities for the many» — they are greatly outnumbered by its critics.

He ran off with an actress, Talulah Riley — paging Mr. Stark — and his wife, the fantasy novelist Justine Musk, wants the house, alimony, child support and $ 6 million cash.

Playwright, novelist and LGBT rights activist Larry Kramer is still making a stand for all Americans.

But Stewart, a former Air Force pilot and novelist before being elected to Congress, was extremely reluctant to openly criticize the president for his phone call or his dealings with Russia.

Artists and novelists have been hounded.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Leaving Fort São Diogo, re-board your coach and head to Rio Vermelho for a guided tour of Casa de Vermelho, the legendary home of novelist Jorge Amado, now converted into an emotive museum of his life and work.

And some of us are troubled by the shallow reasoning that has dominated the political discussions surrounding this move, as though the threadbare idea of equality were enough to settle every question concerning the long - term destiny of mankind and as though the writings of the anthropologists (not to mention the poets, the philosophers, the theologians, the novelists, the sociologists) counted for nothing beside the slogans of Stonewall.

It places Wolfe in the great tradition of social - commentary novelists, a lineage Wolfe hailed in his great Harper's essay, «Stalking the Billion - footed Beast.»

In this magazine, the novelist Randy Boyagoda has called on Catholics to «continue to have faith in fiction» and to stop relying on the old standard bearers such as Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy.

Some of the vocal tracks were just recorded onto the computer.For the most part, the whole thing was on four - track, giving it a scratchy feel.The new album will probably cover the whole experience of trying to get my thing off the ground, losing hope and finding hope.So, I think there will be a theme to the whole record, but it won't be as story - driven as the last one.Like in The Novelist, there's a specific «on this song this is happening, and on the next song such - and - such is happening,» along with the character building.

The novelist Marilynne Robinson shows the destructive effect of all that blood on the idealism of the neo-Puritanical, abolitionist MIDWEST.

The novelist Reynolds Price once remarked that there is a single sentence that, above all, people crave from stories: The Maker of all things loves and wants me.

Another finally, you can find on THE WAYFARING a post on and a link to one of the best articles ever written on MARILYNNE ROBINSON (another novelist that we pomocons love, even though she thinks of herself as anti-con).