Sentences with phrase «novelist once»

Wandering around the home of an author is as close as most people get — but actually residing where a playwright or novelist once put quill to parchment or fingers to battered typewriter is a literary buff's dream come true.

A wise Russian novelist once said, «What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.»

A famous novelist once suggested that after reading a certain book he felt not that he understood more, but that he was understood.

Not exact matches

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.

The Czech novelist Milan Kundera once said that he always objects to the cliché that «a life is like a work of art.»

«When the horror novelist Stephen King was once asked why he wrote such gross stories, he said he did it because he had the heart of a small boy — which he kept in a jar on his desk.»

(CNN)- When the horror novelist Stephen King was once asked why he wrote such gross stories, he said he did it because he had the heart of a small boy - which he kept in a jar on his desk.

Flannery O'Connor once said that any novelist who could survive her childhood had enough to write about for a lifetime.

Once in a while a scientist or novelist would offer a lyrical paean to the «evolutionary process» as though it were a personal god.

In the electronic milieu, we tend to become watchers of Creation — what novelist Jerzy Kosinski once called «videots.»

One of the most disturbing features about the human heart, its tendency toward jealousy, leaped out at me once in a line by novelist Gore Vidal: «Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.»

Or begin with your own inspired hours, when you experienced what Hugh Walpole, the novelist, once described: «I affirm that I have become aware, not by my own wish, almost against my will, of an existence of another life of far, far greater importance and beauty than this physical one.»

The novelist and literary theorist Umberto Eco has called Disneyland «America's Sistine Chapel,» the place where the faithful must flock, pilgrim - like, at least once a year.

♦ Peruvian novelist and recent presidential candidate Mario Vargas Llosa was once a favorite of the Left, but, like many, he has had some second and third thoughts.

CNN: The Gospel of Stephen King When the horror novelist Stephen King was once asked why he wrote such gross stories, he said he did it because he had the heart of a small boy — which he kept in a jar on his desk.

Sunday once called the novelist Sinclair Lewis «Satan's cohort» in response to Lewis's 1927 satirical novel Elmer Gantry, whose main character — a hypocritical evangelist — was modeled on Sunday's flamboyant style.

Nikos Kazantzakis, the Greek poet and novelist, once put it this way:

George Santayana, a philosopher and novelist, once said that the earth has a soothing music for those who care to listen.

New York Times best - selling political novelist, Brad Thor once said, «I live in America.

And as Hemingway — the novelist — once said, «it is the journey that matters, in the end.»

The Japanese novelist Shusaku Endo once said he considered his Catholic baptism the equivalent of receiving a «ready - made suit,» infant size.

Elliott (James Franco), a once - successful novelist inflicted with writer's block and an Adderall addiction strives to escape his problems by delving into the world of a high - profile murder case.

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He does take the lead in Ruby Sparks, a whimsical fantasy about a once - precocious novelist now scuppered by writer's block.

The French novelist Collete once wrote, «Time spent with cats is never wasted.»

Popping up everywhere are movies about people buckling under their own artistic weight — the kind that comes with being a certain type of jazz musician («Whiplash»), actor («Birdman»), novelist («Listen Up Philip»), painter (Mike Leigh's «Mr. Turner»), actor again (Chris Rock's upcoming «Top Five,») concert pianist (the Ethan Hawke - directed fall - festival documentary smash «Seymour»), actor once more (Olivier Assayas» «Clouds of Sils Maria»), rock singer (the Michael Fassbender - starring «Frank»), documentary filmmaker (Noah Baumbach's upcoming «While We're Young») and actor again (Al Pacino's «The Humbling»).

Poet and novelist Paulette Jiles» latest book is once again set in the post-Civil War era, a time that she memorably...

Once known as the «richest town in the world,» Brookline became known in the nineteenth and early twentieth century as the home of significant figures in the worlds of arts and culture: architect Henry Hobson Richardson, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, poet Amy Lowell, and novelist Saul Bellow all called Brookline home.

In One Plus One, British novelist Jojo Moyes (Me Before You) once again introduces her readers to two mismatched lovers who have troubles of their own but find a safe haven in each other.

Once among the best - selling novelists in the country, John O'Hara has largely fallen by the literary wayside since his death in 1970.

At once a scholar, rigorous observer, and lavishly imaginative novelist, Rushdie channels his well - informed despair over the brutality and absurdity of human life into works of fantasy, where the dream of righteous justice and transcendent liberty can flourish.

Now, with Homer & Langley, this master novelist has once again created an unforgettable work.

Apparently, the great novelist Virginia Woolf thought not, for she once wrote, «A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves while a person may well have as many [as a] thousand.»

So much mystery surrounds the life of once - celebrated Ojibwe and African Haitian sculptor Edmonia Lewis (1844 — 1907), it's a wonder novelist Atkins managed to piece together a cohesive narrative, much less such a splendid one.

It's an interesting twist of fate for a novelist who once wrote, upon hearing the soundtrack to the film adaptation of his book About a Boy, «Seeing one's words converted into Hollywood cash is gratifying in all sorts of ways, but it really can not compare to the experience of hearing them converted into music: for someone who has to write books because he can not write songs, the idea that a book might somehow produce a song is embarrassingly thrilling.»

Crime novelist Elmore Leonard once said writers should «try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.»

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?

From trailblazing novelist Walter Mosley: a former NYPD cop once imprisoned for a crime he did not commit must solve two cases: that of a man wrongly condemned to die, and his own.

«Manfredi is a masterful novelist who here transforms, once again, stories that have been passed down through generations into a grand epic adventure.»

He hoped to raise enough money to support himself through the agency of friends and admirers including novelist George Eliot, who loved him, once telling him «If you become attached to someone else, then I must die,» and Huxley, who invited him into England's scientific clerisy, the X-Club, a national force equivalent to the Saturday Club and the Lazzaroni combined.

The UK's most lucrative prize for unpublished authors has once again opened for entries, with a place amongst the literary elite on offer for the writer who stands out from the field featuring some of the world's best undiscovered novelists.

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

Novelist Randi Lee carefully documents how sales started climbing once she started adding teaser images to her social media posts.

Also: a novelist was once talking down to a young photographer who'd been sent to take his picture.

Novelist Cynthia Harrison was once a woman in search of a genre.

Finally, «Where the Wild Things Are» was adapted into a live - action movie in 2009, with a screenplay that was co-written by the award - winning novelist Dave Eggers (who was once also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize).

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.

that same NYT - bestselling author I mentioned earlier once told me that there are only around a hundred full - time novelists in the United States making enough money to support a family

Amazon is making novelists think they're going to come away the winner in this, but once the shorts are disappearing because people don't want to earn less than 15 cents for a short story, I don't feel we will be.

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