Sentences with phrase «as a novel writer»

«It is sometimes very difficult to make money as a novel writer, let alone get published.

Not exact matches

Twenty - five years ago, DeLillo stated his aspirations for novel - writing through the protagonist of Mao II (1991), himself a novelist: «A writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning.

• W. H. Mallock, The New Republic: It defies reason that a professional economist should have written one of the most brilliant satires of the nineteenth century (it appeared in 1877); a conversation novel, in the manner of Thomas Love Peacock, and just about as ingenious as any of his; a grand and ungracious burlesque of the Oxonian intellectuals and writers of the time, many of them Mallock's friends.

We await the publication of his novels with almost evangelical zeal, eager to be entertained and edified by him as by no other contemporary American writer.

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

A graduate of Cambridge University (1968), Rushdie worked as an actor and in advertising until the success of his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981, Booker Prize), allowed him to work as a writer full - time.

The most negative critical reaction came about because of his use of a fragment from writer Vera Panova's reminiscences in his novel Maidenhair, which was misunderstood as plagiarism.

The sins of imperialism stain the British as well as the French, and if there is a lacuna in my historical fiction, it is the absence of a novel dealing with the kind of cruelties that have been exposed by writers such as William Dalrymple (The Last Mughal) and Ferdinand Mount (The Tears of the Rajas).

Though 45 years separate Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple, the two novels embody many similar concerns and methods, ones that characterize the black women's literary tradition — a tradition now in full flower through the work of such writers as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Toni Cade Bambara, Ntozake Shange and Audre Lorde.

In that novel, the great Russian writer shows Ivan, Aloysha, and Dmitri as caught in this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of things.

When Publishers Weekly, in its religion section, talked about one of my novels and one of John Updike's as crossover books by mainstream writers, I doubt that our editors at Knopf were pleased.

When a British magazine recently listed what its editors considered the best young American novelists, it noted that writers were turning back to childhood, growing up and family relationships as subject matter — what some grumbling critics called «the Norman Rockwellization of the novel.»

Updike presents the reader of his novels and stories with the pseudo — wise men of today's society — with Jimmy, the big Mouseketeer who quotes Socrates; with the neon owl that advertises pretzels; with Ken Whitman, the scientist living in Tarbox who is considered intelligent in his field but who lacks a basic understanding of life; with Bech the writer, honored in direct proportion to the decline of his literary production; with Connor, the efficient, well - trained administrator of the old people's home who fails to comprehend as much of life's mystery as his simple and sometimes senile wards do.

It is also what some critics call an «encyclopedic novel,» at once a fictional distillation of a civilization — in this case, that of medieval Britain, or at least a vision of it — complete with the arcana of various subjects (in this case, medieval warfare, falconry, heraldry, hagiography, psalters, scholasticism, and so on) that you expect from Pynchon and DeLillo, and the highly individual vision of a writer who is using Malory's vast romance as a springboard for his own imagination.

Was Lake Hopatcong really 35 feet deep, as was asserted by a writer on the then - novel sport of scuba diving?

The writer of the best - selling pro football novel watches with dismay and reluctant admiration as Hollywood transforms his book into a movie

Russell Crowe named his son Tennyson (as in writer Alfred Tennyson), model Niki Taylor named her son Hunter (think gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson), and Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake named their son Silas (title character of George Eliot's novel Silas Marner).

Samuel Richardson, the 18th - century writer who is widely regarded as one of the founders of the modern novel, complained so much about ill health that his doctor regarded him as a hypochondriac.

His second novel, Clarissa, earned him a reputation throughout Europe as a fine writer.

Writer Aldous Huxley was similarly inspired, and wrote of vomitoriums as literal places to vomit in his 1923 novel «Antic Hay.»

Not the American science fiction writer whose novels spawned hit films such as Blade Runner and Total Recall — he died more than 20 years ago — but a state - of - the - art robot named after the author.

This blog is a creative outlet not only for my love of fashion, but for that geeky writer in me who dreamed as a little girl of seeing her name on the spine of a novel on a bookstore shelf.

I'm a 19 year old writer with several novels in the process of being finalized looking for someone who loves Harry Potter as much as I do

I am currently retired and work as a writer, having just published a new novel and written a screenplay, which I am marketing.

Admirably, writer - director Alex Garland doesn't so much adapt Jeff VanderMeer's 2014 sci - fi bestseller Annihilation for the screen so much as he riffs on the novel's trippy happenings, creating something almost entirely his own.

«Lean on Pete» calls to mind other greats as well — one imagines a pitch meeting where it was described as «The 400 Blows» meets «Wendy and Lucy» — but writer - director Haigh, working from the novel by Willy Vlautin, has his own way of telling this kind of story.

As a big fan of crime writer Elmore Leonard and, in particular, his novel «Rum Punch» (upon which this is an adaptation), I was admittedly left with feelings of disappointment when I first seen «Jackie Brown».

A sequel already exists in novel form, as writer Irvine Welsh, gave us PORNO a number of years back.

What excites Callow about the film is that people's notion of Dickens as a bearded older, stuffy Victorian writer, will be changed as in fact he was a father of four, handsome, witty and lively guy who completed the novel at age 31.

«If Beale Street Could Talk» «Moonlight» director Barry Jenkins is bringing James Baldwin to the big screen; his next directorial effort will be an adaptation of the prolific writer's novel of the same name, which follows a young pregnant woman from Harlem as she fights to prove her fiancé's innocence in a crime he didn't commit.

Director: Michael Grandage Writers: John Logan, A. Scott Berg (based on his novel) Cast: Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Jude Law, Guy Pearce, Dominic West, Laura Linney Synopsis: «A chronicle of Max Perkin's time as the book editor at Scribner, where he oversaw works by Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others,» IMDb.

More than anything else, in fact, the look and episodic composition of the film reminded me of Wojciech Has's The Saragossa Manuscript, a Polish film based on a Polish writer's French - language novel set in Spain (that's no doubt as European as it gets).

This, still, is an oversimplification as writer / director Jonathan Glazer (along with co-writer Walter Campbell) have loosely adapted Michel Faber «s 2000 novel into a story of an alien being come to Earth to harvest humans for sustenance and, in the process, finds compassion for her victims only to find with compassion comes injury.

series could become a must - read set of visual novels in the near future as long as the writers don't lose their focus.

Over the years, they have adapted novels by such writers as Henry James, E. M. Forster, and Kazuo Ishiguro into sophisticated works in their own right — their multiple - Oscar - winning Howards End (1992) is often considered their artistic pinnacle.

The film, which is being penned by Deborah Baxtrom, tells the tale of the young writer as she writes her now famous novel and «is drawn into a Faustian bargain with her own «monster» of an alter ego, who offers literary fame at a desperate personal cost.»

Wallace, Lipsky argues, is not just some celebrated writer but the voice of his generation, as some reviews of his 1,000 - page novel Infinite Jest have claimed.

The big question was whether screenwriters Hampton Fancher (maybe every writer should begin as a flamenco dancer) and Michael Green would be able to create a script that would attract new viewers while honoring the original film and source Philip K Dick novel, «Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?»

Bored to Death: The Complete First Season Available on DVD and Blu - ray Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, and Ted Danson star in this freshman HBO comedy about a mystery writer who is so bored that he posts an ad on the internet lending his services as a private detective in order to pass the time and maybe get a few ideas for his novel.

As previously revealed by Deadline, the Dan Mazer - helmed project is based on the award - winning graphic novel by Russian writer and illustrator Vera Brosgol.

Adapted from a 1993 novel by Irvine Welsh, who has a cameo in the movie as a drug dealer, Trainspotting was created by the same team that turned out the much less interesting Shallow Grave: producer Andrew Macdonald, director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge, lead actor Ewan McGregor, and the same cinematographer, production designer, and editor.

The two key sources, however, are unpublished documents he obtained from Gloria Karefa - Smart, Baldwin's sister and literary executor: a June 1979 letter from the writer to his agent, Jay Acton, and 30 pages of notes for a novel that Baldwin would never write, to chronicle the lives and deaths of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. «I want these three lives to bang against and reveal each other, as in truth they did,» Baldwin explains, «and use their dreadful journey as a means of instructing people whom they loved so much, who betrayed them, and for whom they gave their lives.»

So pairing the writer - director with equally audacious source material seems like a win - win combination, as Garland takes a budget nearly quadruple that of his last film to adapt Jeff VanderMeer's head - trip novel of the same name, the first in his Southern Reach trilogy.

Cite Coney Island, as writer scripter Nick Hornby does in a screenplay based on Colm Toibin's novel, and you think of how your dad gave you a dollar in 1945, about the same amount as your friends received from their folks, an amount which gave us four hours of fun in Coney Island where Nathan's hot dogs were fifteen cents and a bag of fries the same.

What strikes me most about this movie, which I had long wanted to see but hadn't until now, is that Williamson alone is credited as writer, even though its concept bears a strong resemblance to Killing Mr. Griffin, a novel Duncan wrote five years after the source of I Know What You Did....

Taking that throwaway premise, writer and director Alex Garland (loosely adapting a novel by Jeff VanderMeer) has crafted a film that tackles such weighty and sensitive issues as depression, grief and the human propensity for self - destruction.

By the time Richard Gere as the aptly named «Guy» shows up as a divorced writer embarking on his first novel, the pot is already at the boil.

Based on a novel by African - American writer Sapphire and set in 1980s Harlem, the film stars Gabourney Sidibe as Claireece «Precious» Jones, an obese 16 - year - old girl who is suspended from school when it's discovered she's pregnant.

After decades of stopping and starting, attempted productions that included talents such as Francis Ford Coppola and Marlon Brando, Jack Kerouac's definitive Beat novel «On The Road» has finally been brought to the screen through the caring hands of director Walter Salles and writer Jose Rivera.

Never Let Me Go is a film born of pedigree; director Mark Romanek is a much loved music video director, writer Alex Garland is a dab hand at adapting difficult material (The Beach) as well as intelligent sci - fi (Sunshine), and the source material is the critically acclaimed novel by Kazuo Ishiguro.