Sentences with phrase «write about a novel»

Bestselling author of medical thrillers, Tess Gerritsen (Playing with Fire, and the Rizzoli & Isles series) wrote a whole blog about it a few years ago after a friend, Sandra Scoppetone, also a best selling author (Too Darn Hot) wrote this about the novel she was working on at the time: «I hate it.

Last year I wrote about its novel use of sails on some ships to cut fuel use.

Not exact matches

The company allegedly runs an internal spying program and even prohibits employees from writing a novel about working in Silicon Valley.

«This is uncomfortable, but it's possible we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics,» Altman wrote.

Luckie wrote a novel called DO U, about men at a fictional black college, and now runs a site called Today in Black Twitter.

He was doing a book tour, and we were hanging out and talking about his graphic novels, and I had told him that I was interesting in maybe collaborating with him on something if he had any pages he didn't know what to do with to send them over to me, and I would try to write some songs or something.

It's an outdated paperback collection of novels written by man about his interpretation of past events..

For much of his career, he wrote bitterly satirical novels about well - off Londoners; even when the prospect of nuclear catastrophe arises, as it does in London Fields (1989), Amis seems to treat «The Crisis,» the coming «horrorday,» primarily as a vehicle for revealing the largely unpleasant traits of his handful of main characters.

The Mailer who can write a sentence like «his eyes were blue like the faded blue of the sky when the sky is white» is about as far as is humanly possible from the Mailer whose political reporting in the early 1960s remains irresistible long after its subjects have faded» and reestablished his literary reputation that had begun to fade with the critical and popular questioning of the novels that followed The Naked and the Dead.

«It's never too late to try to write that novel, start that business, travel the world or launch that social activism campaign you've always dreamed about.

• Patrick Leigh Fermor, The Violins of Saint - Jacques: No one in the twentieth century wrote more magnificent English, or prose of a purer purple; but, while his travel memoirs are now more widely appreciated than ever, his only novel (or novella, really) tends to be overlooked — a deftly constructed, economically proportioned, perfectly satisfying little tale about the small twilight world of a fictional French Caribbean island on its last day.

• 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.

Our choice of two — J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and Flannery O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away — is therefore somewhat arbitrary, but not entirely, for so much has been written about such novels as The Brothers Karamazov and The Sound and the Fury, and the stories of Alyosha and Dilsey are such perfect illustrations of the parabolic way, that they are almost too easy.

Most Likely To Make You Feel Less Guilty About Curling Up on the Couch This Afternoon With a Novel: Enuma Okoro with «Read, Write, Worship»

Jeremy, you could write a novel, without any thing illicit being said or done, as Lewis did, about a man who found ways to talk about Jesus (Gods Grace you know what I mean) over and against the forces surrounding him.

Novels could (and should) be written about what this show got right about marriage, but it's enough to say here that their partnership and love is arguably the finest portrayal of marriage in television today.

After his conversion, he wrote a gripping historical novel, A Danger to the State, about the suppression of the Jesuits, which is among the best of its kind.

A great thing about Robinson, of course, is that she's not only written novels, but lots of essays — philosophic, theological, cultural, and political — for those of us who have that prosaic learning style.

I am not gonna comment on all these sick opinions,, I understand now that most of westerns oppose Islam, therefor they don't wan na hear anything good about it,, all they do they lie and believe their lies,, good for you guys but believe me no one in this world helps the US as Muslims do to the country in all important fields,, and please don't dare me to write novels what we've done to you and i am as a person from Saudi,, You should be thankful instead of your sick racist minds,, TRUST me no one can stop the huge flow of ISLAM anywhere,

Lady Susan, a cynical story about a predatory widow's romantic scheming, dates from the mid-1790s, when Austen was approaching twenty; Love and Freindship, a madcap satire of the sentimental novel, was written a few years earlier, when she was a formidably accomplished fourteen - year - old.

In his novel Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut writes about how back in the old days (before advances in transportation, trade, communication), there would be one artist or one songwriter or one storyteller in a village of, say, 1,000 people.

The famous novelist, teacher and speaker has written about her struggles with doubt in several of her novels.

Of Innocent Blood (1980) James has said, «I wanted to write about the search for identity, revenge, redemption,... and therefore I decided this had better be a novel that wasn't a straightforward detective story and wouldn't feature Dalgleish.»

Despite all this, 19th century British novels show the usage of «they» and «he» with a singular antecedent to be about equal; Americans, however, being less sure of their natural language instincts and depending more on grammarians» rules when writing formally, have been more rigid about the «he.»

Walker Percy — no slouch when it came to Catholic philosophical thought — used to say that whereas O'Connor wrote about cosmic conflicts played out in the existential arenas of the Georgia backwoods, his novels depicted a world of shopping malls and golf courses.

(Note that Ronald Kidd has written a novel about Monkey Town!)

Even before I had any faith at all, I had written an entire novel about him — two novels, in fact.

Patrick Rothfuss's debut novel about Kvothe, a young boy who grows to be a legend, is compelling and beautifully written.

I wonder if charles dickins was inspired by arsene wenger to write the classic novel a christmas carol, about ebenezer scrooge?

Adam Gopnik — like his pieces on France and the French — writing about Houllebecq (whose new novel is out) and Eric Zemmour (a French TV journalist with a book of diatribe against modern France) in the latest New Yorker, brings up Football: «The result of the new free market in football is that French footballers, like Thierry Henry and Arsene Wenger, have become heroes in North and West London».

A young boy thrown into a alien world, forced to improvise to find his way and gain approval: Roald Dahl might as well have been talking about the career of Daniel Miguel Alves Gomes in Russia when he wrote his classic children's novel.

In this episode of The Write Up, host Owen Egerton talks to George Saunders about craft, ecstatic empathy and the afterlife in his first novel Lincoln in the Bardo.

Great essay... Didn't you write about this in one of your novels?

As a mother to three young children myself, I couldn't help but catch up with Jessica to ask her some questions about her novel, her family, and her writing journey.

When not writing about food, she's scribbling novels, and TV show reviews and recaps.

I wrote a novel - length, teary - eyed email to about 12 mom friends in desperation because I did NOT want to cosleep and didn't know what to do.

Will Self who has shut himself off in Jura (where George Orwell wrote the novel) is sure to have something interesting to say about this as usual.

About the speaker Rebecca Goldstein has written five novels, a number of short stories and essays, and biographical studies of mathematician Kurt Gödel and philosopher Baruch Spinoza.

«There is nothing novel about the 2014 Democratic Party campaign to elect Democratic candidates to the State Senate, other than your attempt to selectively criminalize it,» Laufer wrote.

He said in a statement that he was excited to pursue «new passions and develop new interests, mainly spend more time writing my second novel» and about «spending more time home and frequenting my beloved New York diners.»

He also attempted a book - writing career (one idea was to be «a Bill Bryson, but for horses»; another novel was to be about a «Hooray Henry who had fallen in love with a Russian hooker»).

«If I find myself with some spare time I will have a look at this fascinating novel someone has written about me,» Mr Cameron said from Chicago, where he is attending a Nato summit.

He decided to write a novel about them, as well, and in 2000, Bantam published Deep Sound Channel, a thriller about a war fought in the South Atlantic in 2011.

Much has been written about the triumph of geek culture, but what I am seeing all around goes deeper: not just a fondness for comic books and fantasy novels, but a wholesale embrace of scientific thinking in popular entertainment.

When asked about Pauling's faulty DNA model, one of his contemporaries commented, «You could not have written a fictional novel in which Linus would have made an error like thi

E. O. Wilson says, of his new novel Anthill: «This is the first time anyone has written about the lives of ants from their point of view» (10 April, p 38).

All the participants then read an embarrassing passage from a novel — in which a woman opens a magazine to find that her ex-boyfriend has written an article about her, called «Loving a Larger Woman» — and rated how much they enjoyed the story.

(Think about it: If you are writing in a language that has only two letters, each word has to be pretty long in order to have a unique spelling; if you have 26 letters to choose from, your words can be shorter, and a given sentence, or paragraph, or novel will also contain fewer keystrokes overall.)

Despite being the most influential science writer in the world, Asimov is best known for his fiction, particularly his «Foundation» novels, written during the 1950s, and his novels about «positronic robots».

Jules Verne, in his 1870 underwater adventure novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, wrote about a «lactified» ocean.