Sentences with phrase «well as a novelist»

Likewise, you don't have to be a marketing grandmaster to do well 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.

Not exact matches

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

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).

From the novelist as well as from the stories in Scripture the theologian should take courage to concentrate on the experience of coming to belief, not on the «beliefs» themselves (the sedimentation of experiences of coming to belief).

Recently, three outstanding crime novelists have turned directly to the church for inspiration, presenting amateur detectives who are, in vocation as well as in spirit, priests.

She has also been identified, perhaps more by modern novelists and screenwriters than by the ancients, as the woman at the well (John 4:4.29).

If the question were expanded to include novelists — the most sociological of major art forms — a well - informed literary critic might offer a few names such as Ron Hansen or Alice McDermott, authors whose subject matter is often overtly Catholic.

But America is good, it seems, in part because it can find places for Southerners, especially Southern Stoics (think the novelist Tom Wolfe, Atticus Finch, Admiral Stockdale, Navy SEALS, and the proud men of Morehouse), Catholics (as, to begin with, the best organized in countercultural thought and action of our large institutional religions), and Heideggerians (who are right, after all, about the American propensity for inauthentically deferring to the «they» of public opinion and scientific expertise).

The novelist Flannery O'Connor's Catholic faith nourished her art is amply evidenced in her letters as well as in her fiction.

Drawing on novelists, poets, as well as Scripture, Trotter leads us through a perilous issue with a result that opens up new options for religious expressions, as well as warnings about traditional religious language.

After all, the two novelists are, as George Steiner so well argued in his Tolstoy or Dostoevsky, very different in their intentions, techniques, and (above all) artistic temperaments.

The connection between freedom and time (and between them and selfhood or personal identity) appears clearly in Sartre's insistence that the good novel present a self shaping an open future, not a puppet ruled by the past whose end is contained in his beginning: «But in order for the duration of my impatience and ignorance to be caught and then moulded and finally presented to me as the flesh of these creatures of invention, the novelist must know how to draw it into the trap, how to hollow out in his book, by means of signs at his disposal, a time resembling my own, one in which the future does not exist.

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.»

By Russ Gager alinas, Calif. — the salad bowl of the United States made famous by novelist John Steinbeck in «East of Eden» — used to be as overflowing with food brokers as a well - tossed Caesar salad.

No one has ever surpassed her as a novelist, and Middlemarch is the best.

Mayor Kathy Sheehan: «He is best known as a novelist, but he's also an historian, a journalist, a critic, an essayist, a poet, a philosopher, a screenwriter, a playwright and a treasured friend and colleague to many.

Famed former Manhattan sex - crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein, a best - selling novelist who in 2007 wrote a Vanity Fair column about wanting to make a movie with Weinstein, worked as a consultant for the mogul after he was accused of groping the Italian model.

Bunch of good stuff in the Riverdale Press this week, including this story about 50th Precinct cop Matthew Delaney who moonlights as a crime novelist and this story about the complicated battle for control of the 15 - building, 234 - unit Sholem Aleichem housing complex in Van Cortlandt Village.

Historical novelist Naomi Mitchison, daughter and sister of the two great Haldane scientists, also sees part of the function of SF as warning: «Who better to bring the disasters which we are making for ourselves forcibly home to voters and opinion - makers than committed SF writers?»

Scotland About Blog This is the Official Website of Joanne Rowling, who writes under the pen names J. K. Rowling and Robert Galbraith, is a British novelist, film and television producer, screenwriter and philanthropist, best known as the author of the Harry Potter fantasy series.

Perhaps best known as a photojournalist, Parks was also a novelist, poet, musician, and filmmaker.

Tim Lucas is a critic, screenwriter, and novelist, as well as the editor and copublisher of the award - winning Video Watchdog, a bimonthly consumer guide to cult and genre cinema on DVD.

In an interview Rudolph helpfully singled out an Altman film he worked on as assistant director, The Long Goodbye — a much better film, one that can accommodate in its gallery of gargoyles a tragic figure like Sterling Hayden's alcoholic novelist as well as a nightmarishly comic one like Mark Rydell's Jewish gangster.

Letts, who was 76, was a highly regarded novelist (as well as a teacher and...

His brother Robert (Rupert Graves), a successful novelist, is late flying in from New York, and Daniel must face living more under his brother's shadow, as he must give the eulogy — a task for which everyone thinks Robert is better suited.

Fifty Shadows of Grey held its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival, attended by stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson, as well as director Sam Taylor - Johnson and her actor - husband Aaron, plus novelist E.L. James...

Based on British novelist Allison Pearson's best - seller of the same name, the film is rather reminiscent of Bridget Jones» Diary, as it revolves around a series of pithy journal entries recounted by an introspective protagonist.

Prior to working at the Film Agency for Wales, Keith was Head of Development at Dan Films, responsible for a slate of projects intended for cinema release including Christopher Smith's Triangle as well as working with acclaimed novelists Tom Rob Smith and Jeff Noon on feature projects.

All that said, Ex Machina is easily one of the best films of the year so far and a remarkable directorial debut for Garland, who's made a name for himself as a novelist and screenwriter for some 15 years now.

Wilson's performance as screenwriter and aspiring novelist Gil Pender garnered him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

Kazuo Ishiguro is credited as an executive producer on Never Let Me Go and novelist / screenwriter Alex Garland (best known for The Beach and the script for 28 Days Later) is credited as writer.

The best reason to see Noah Baumbach's blistering autobiographical divorce drama The Squid and the Whale (The Samuel Goldwyn Company) is Jeff Daniels as the teenage protagonist's father, Bernard Berkman, a novelist and a titan of self - absorption whose ego envelops his son like a squid.

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This year's Actor Tribute honoree, Ethan Hawke, is a distinguished artist, recognized the world over as a talented and versatile performer, as well as director, novelist, and screenwriter of several unforgettable films.

Anthony Franciosa stars as Peter Neal, a best - selling thriller novelist whose promotional tour in Italy takes a terrible turn when a mysterious killer recreates the brutal murders from his book with real life victims.

Emma Thompson, as Bridget's unamused OB - GYN, is terrific (she co-wrote with Dan Mazer and «Jones» novelist Helen Fielding), while Sarah Solemani, as the saucy news anchor Miranda, is good enough for her own spinoff.

It certainly came bearing a seemingly reliable pedigree of talent, with Pixar's Andrew Stanton (late of Finding Nemo and WALL - E) as director, providing enough of that trademarked hokey, winking self - deprecation that otherwise seems to sell well, and even some script - doctoring by novelist Michael Chabon.

Alain Robbe - Grillet is best known as an experiment novelist in the nouvelle roman movement of the fifties and as the screenwriter of Alain Resnais» elegant yet conceptually daring French nouvelle vague landmark Last Year at Marienbad.

Elle Fanning and Douglas Booth are well cast as Frankenstein novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and her lover and eventual husband, the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley.

While literary editor Terry Crabtree still has the bad little boy smirk common to all Downey characters, his own issues are downright mild compared to Michael Douglas» Grady Tripp, a 50 - year - old professor, semi-professional pot - smoker, and neurotically stricken one - hit - wonder novelist, as well as Tobey Maguire's James Leer, an emotionally constricted budding author and semi-pathological liar.

SF Said, the award - winning author of the Varjak Paw novels, is also one of the novelists who will be analysing the children's writing, as well as Laura Dockrill, author of Darcy Burdock.

The most well - known contemporary Slovenian authors include the philosopher Slavoj Žižek, the novelist and translator Ales Steger as well as the children's book author and illustrator Lila Prap.

Learning all this before going indie as a novelist has stood me in good stead — I'm not afraid of marketing!

He is the author of The Career Novelist (1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (2001), Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (2004) and The Fire in Fiction (2009)-- as well as numerous novels — and a past president of the Association of Authors» Representatives, Inc..

Step Two: Novelist gets the manuscript into shape with some first readers and maybe a good copyedit, then launches it on electronic sites and gets it through a POD publisher such as CreateSpace, which will give you cheap author's copies in their $ 39 pro program.

In addition to its original structure, the novel offers candid insights into the effects of status on love... Barnett's willingness to look beyond romance to the mechanics of relationships bodes well for her career as a novelist.»

Glen Duncan was named by The Times Literary Supplement as one of Britain's «twenty best young novelists».

Her work as a journalist taught her to be an observant person and disciplined enough to write every day — good training for a novelist.

Most of my TV - watching is done online these days, so maybe it's not surprising that I missed the March premiere of «Castle,» a new crime drama that stars Nathan Fillion as best - selling novelist Richard Castle, who teams up with a no - nonsense NYC cop to catch a killer who's copying the crimes from his books.