Sentences with phrase «as a novelist»

I quit my corporate job as a technical editor in order to pursue my own career as a novelist.
Once established as a novelist, I found I was often asked for writing advice.
But the truth is that I started out as a novelist before pursuing journalism; in a sense, journalism was a fall back career.
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.
An analysis of late - stage capitalism is pretty abstract, and as a novelist what you need are characters in a situation.
Do you feel you're identified as a novelist for women?
You have to give them both ample attention if you ever want to succeed as a novelist.
That hybrid - genre has found a certain readership and I am excited to continue my journey as a novelist, a road I have only just begun.
What drew you to the suspense / thriller format as a novelist?
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.
Do you feel that background helped with your new career as a novelist?
When I say writing and publishing are easy, the reference is comparative to making money as a novelist.
My colleague Anna Davis — then a literary agent at Curtis Brown, as well as a novelist — launched Curtis Brown Creative in 2011 when she realised a lot of people were looking for novel - writing courses as an alternative to expensive Masters Degrees.
Some information about each of these troubled, talented men: F. Scott Fitzerald (1896 - 1940) Fitzgerald is best known as a novelist who portrayed, and indeed coined the term, the Jazz Age.
Always an avid reader and history buff, her success as a novelist came as a complete surprise to her.
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.
Working as a novelist taught me a particular kind of patience.
Chabon talked about the book and his career as a novelist with fellow novelist Ann Patchett before a packed theater of fans at the Nashville Public Library in Downtown Nashville on Sunday.
Even artists who do things that are clearly and distinctively Christian, such as the novelist Walker Percy, are frequently rejected as «unsuitable» by some Christians because their works do not toe to one or another line of orthodoxy.
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.
Harriet's position as a novelist also allows for Sayers to get in some marvelous jabs on the subject of writing:
Who but a madman or a prophet would have imagined, as novelist Walker Percy did, that a whole industry of profitable «Qualitarian Centers» would spring up, where, as one of Percy's characters explained, doctors would respect «the right of an unwanted child not to have to endure a life of suffering»?
«Conservative MP Nadine Dorries is to make her debut as a novelist after she was signed up for a three - book deal.
He Loves Me stars Paul Dano as a novelist suffering from writer's block who wills the woman of his dreams (played by Kazan, Dano's real - life girlfriend) into existence.
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...
Exquisite detail... with the completion of this book Ms. Webb has made her name as a novelist and historian.»
Cain noted in a tweet that she never blocked anyone on Twitter until she started writing a relatively low - profile comic book series, never having to in her years as a novelist selling millions of books.
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).
With that preparation, Professor Richard propounded the first question, the one Percy had to contend with from his early recognition as novelist to the end: «Do you consider yourself as a Southern writer and, if so, what features of your work do you regard as peculiarly Southern?»
Or as novelist Gore Vidal comments, Puritan virtue is dead and there is nothing to replace it.
As novelist Marilynne Robinson has said, «grace is not so poor a thing that it can not present itself in any number of ways.»
But I still thought of myself principally as a novelist and so wrote Polonaise, a novel whose hero was a sexually perverse Polish intellectual — hardly likely to appeal to admirers of Alive.
Free from the compulsion to concentrate on racism and oppression, she could as an anthropologist delight in collecting black folklore — in Mules and Men — and as a novelist focus on a young woman's quest for identity and wholeness — in Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Montgomery delves into Percy's evolution as a novelist, educating the reader on Stoicism, Manichaeism, and Modernism; comparing Augustinian and Thomistic approaches; and discussing Melville, Eliot, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
As a novelist pre-eminently of the middle way, Updike seems to have found this era of apocalyptic extremes rather dreary and dead - ended.
But as novelists keep pounding away at the subject, a «literature» of the sport has developed.
An Observer review of that book noted that «while Johnson is a heroic failure as a novelist, he scores in his comic handling of sensitive issues».
Yafa's background as a novelist and playwright comes through in his lively pacing and witty asides, but it's his commitment to cutting through the hype and hokum that makes Grain of Truth so compelling.
As novelist Anthony Burgess observed, «Laugh and the world laughs with you; snore and you sleep alone.»
Some of the authors are long dead, such as novelists Émile Zola and Stefan Zweig.
As novelist Joan Bauer put it «It was bad enough not having a boyfriend for New Year's Eve.
Finally wearying of civil service, he moved to Chicago, hoping to make his fortune as a novelist.
«In the Heart of the Sea» stars Chris Hemsworth («The Avengers,» «Rush») as the vessel's veteran first mate Owen Chase; Benjamin Walker («Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter») as its inexperienced Captain, George Pollard; Cillian Murphy («The Dark Knight Rises») as second mate Matthew Joy; and Ben Whishaw («Skyfall») as novelist Herman Melville, whose inquiries into the event 30 years later helped bring the story to light.
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