Sentences with phrase «as a novelist what»

An analysis of late - stage capitalism is pretty abstract, and as a novelist what you need are characters in a situation.

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«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.»

Long, long ago, in the years just preceding the Second World War» as Germany was overrunning Czechoslovakia and annexing Austria, and as Neville Chamberlain was preparing to travel to Munich to sort these things out» the novelist E.M. Forster wrote an essay called «What I Believe.»

It is crucial, at last, to any person's understanding of his own nature and is not reserved as what «any novelist must have.»

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?»

For purposes of classification, therefore, it would perhaps be most accurate to think of Davies as a writer of Christian apocrypha: a novelist who finds himself uncomfortably restrained by the canon of Christian thought, but who is not, on the other hand, a heretic; a self - proclaimed moralist who holds that while we reap what we sow, it is often difficult to know the nature of the seed or the outcome of the harvest.

The novelist says that love is the only answer, but without being as clear as he should be (or while being very conflicted) about what love is.

The Marxist - Leninist vision of the future — what Czech novelist Milan Kundera described as «organized forgetting» — is now supplanted by a leader who knows that remembering is redemptive, that human dignity is finally an expression of the inexpressible mystery.

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.»

As the late British novelist Susan Ertz observed, «Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy Sunday afternoon.»

Sadly, the distinguished historian David Cesarani did not live to see his last book published, Disraeli The Novel Politician (Yale # 15) in which he considers Disraeli's Jewishness and what if anything it meant to his life as a novelist and politician.

I loved what [author] Jeff [VanderMeer] had done but one thing I know... Years ago I used to work as a novelist and I know that novels & films are independent of each other.

You can see what Fanning looks like as the famed English writer and novelist below.

What makes it nightmarish isn't so much its premise — a man set loose inside the mind and writings of a crazed hack novelist — as the many elliptical details that the premise occasions: things that go bump in the head, fleeting suggestions of horrors that brush the edge of our attention and perceptions, like the peripheral events in bad dreams.

The film's flash - forward / flashback conceit, scripted by Charles Leavitt, is that, 30 years later, the young novelist Herman Melville bribes the Essex's sole living survivor, Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson), to unload to him the true story, as opposed to the whitewashed official version, of what happened aboard the Essex and its aftermath.

What does a poet bring to the table when writing a piece about racism that journalists or novelists might not access quite as easily?

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As a novelist, though, I'm interested less in exploring events themselves than in using them for my own purposes, and for a long time I didn't know what that purpose would be.

I seemed unable to locate the nexus of the story, what Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk so aptly refers to as «the secret center.»

So I did something that may be unusual for novelists but felt perfectly natural to me as a collaborator — I called upon two of my writer friends to help me do what screenwriters call «breaking the story.»

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?

What does that feel like as a debut novelist?

We talked with the best - selling crime novelist about what it's like to be a millionaire, her theories on Jack the Ripper and Princess Diana, and writing your own role models as a woman.

Hailed as a «fiercely original talent» (San Francisco Chronicle), award - winning novelist McCann has delivered a triumphantly American masterpiece that awakens in us a sense of what the novel can achieve, confront, and even heal.

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

In Universal Harvester, he explores the role of novelist as tarot card reader; as he uncovers each scene, he seems to say, «This could mean X, or it could mean the opposite of X. Let's flip over the next card to see what it reveals.»

Which is why the most important decision a novelist can make is what he or she chooses to look at — in so far as there's a choice at all.

That's what got one Florida nurse featured in an article on Nurse.com — «RN spins tales: Florida nurse doubles as romance novelist.»

As to where I am now, I've been a full - time novelist for the last four years and one of the lucky few who earn a good living from doing what I love the most.

Novelists writing over 240 pages (higher than the average) will be making the same as what they did before.

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.

Best - selling spy novelist Barry Eisler and successful thriller novelist and self - publishing advocate Joe Konrath's ebook Be the Monkey is a sprawling discussion as recorded on GoogleDocs; a loud cheer for what they call «indie - publishing», and an autopsy of the publishing industry as it transitions from a paper - based model to one dominated by digital texts.

Joanna: That's what I was about to say: your first novel, «First Blood,» became the Rambo franchise, and your latest novel is «Murder as a Fine Art,» a historical thriller, and today we're also talking about your latest book for writers, «The Successful Novelist,» recently updated.

Despite what the title may lead you to believe, the game doesn't put you in control of a novelist struggling to finish his next book, and it's in this way that the game differs from most others that revolve around writing as a central theme.

In what novelist Ben Okri describes as «the most significant discovery in contemporary African art in over fifty years».