Sentences with phrase «write than the novel»

They think a memoir or how - to book is somehow easier to write than a novel.

Those can be tougher to write than the novel because the author is too close to his / her own story.

They think a memoir or how - to book is somehow easier to write than a novel, so they believe they don't need writing classes or critique groups.

Not exact matches

Woods writes: «The structure of the novel suggests that Clarence Wilmot's fall from faith has somehow caused this carnage and confusion; that the failure of belief will not have awakened modern America to reason, only delivered her to more craziness than anyone can bear to contemplate.

• 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.

William Blake wrote of England's «dark satanic mills,» and Charles Dickens's novel Hard Times describes the prototypical industrial city of Coke - town in terms more hellish than heavenly.

This situation is nowhere more clearly described in modern literature than in the novels of Franz Kafka: «His unexpressed, ever - present theme,» writes Buber, «is the remoteness of the judge, the remoteness of the lord of the castle, the hiddenness, the eclipse...» Kafka describes the human world as given over to the meaningless government of a slovenly bureaucracy without possibility of appeal: «From the hopelessly strange Being who gave this world into their impure hands, no message of comfort or promise penetrates to us.

When I set out to write my first novel more than fifty years ago, I did not anticipate that it would mean supping with the devil.

After all, he's a man who has published more than 50 novels including that evergreen high - school requirement Fahrenheit 451, and written hundreds of short stories and a host of screenplays, including the adaptation of Moby Dick for legendary director John Huston.

By asserting the process - theoretic foundations of our world, we can maintain both science and God and thus escape the materialist malaise - perhaps never better expressed than in this brief excerpt from a work held by many to be the greatest novel ever written:

Nothing is more damaging to fiction, she wrote, than writers who try to impose their beliefs on their novels in a forced or unnatural way.

«More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones,» Truman Capote wrote in his unfinished novel, Answered Prayers.

I'd sooner use passages from a John Grisham novel in court than anything written in an ancient book.

«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.

The relevant patents involve the positioning of differentiated retinal cells in the eye and not the creation of these cells and would potentially be exempt from the ruling; his team wrote its patent this way to distinguish it from other stem - cell - based applications — they felt that describing the placement of cells rather than the creation of the cells was likely to be more novel.

► «[A] novel analysis finding a link between how U.S. graduate students in the biomedical sciences are funded and their first job after earning their Ph.D. turns one piece of conventional wisdom on its head: Students supported on a research grant are more likely to take a research job than those funded by other mechanisms,» including training grants and individual fellowships, Jeffrey Mervis wrote today.

Indeed this was the appeal, for Burns, of writing a play, rather than a novel, say.

Dr. Peden has written or contributed to more than 160 peer - reviewed scientific publications on the kinetics and mechanisms of automobile exhaust catalysis; the development of zeolite catalysts for diesel engine emission control; hydrocarbon reforming over bimetallic catalysts; the structure of hydroprocessing catalysts; the development of novel, supported solid acid catalysts for petroleum refining; the growth and properties of oxide and semiconductor thin films; and model studies of adhesion at metal / metal - oxide interfaces.

She's been writing a novel about a female astronomer for longer than she cares to think about.

This is a «novel finding,» they wrote (pun intended), and good news for book lovers in more ways than one: «The robustness of our findings suggest that reading books may not only introduce some interesting ideas and characters, it may also give more years of reading.»

I could write a novel but I will try to keep it shorter than that HAHA

You don't need to write a novel, but more information is better than a lack of.

Define yourself concretely - better to say «I am a guitar player in a band, I write novels, or I am a cardiologist» rather than «I am creative or spontaneous.»

Of course, you don't want to write a novel, but you want to give a little more information than a simple one or two - word response.

5 tips to write the best online dating profile, from writer Dave Writing a dating profile is much like writing an article or a novel But it can also be more complicated thaWriting a dating profile is much like writing an article or a novel But it can also be more complicated thawriting an article or a novel But it can also be more complicated than that.

Quentin Tarantino has said more than once in the last few years that if he retires, which seems like the prospective plan, he would like to eventually just write novels.

The soap suds bubble through clearer than ever, the laughably melodramatic twists in the plot, the car chase, the conspicuous consumption of E.L. James's novels — who knew «If you write it, you will eventually own it, when the public eats this soft - core swill up.»

If the subsequent adaptation of author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s acclaimed novel Breakfast of Champions failed to capture the essence of the written word, Nolte still managed to offer an impressive performance in the following year's The Golden Bowl.At this point in his career Nolte could certainly be counted on to turn in compelling performances regardless of the project, which made the return of his former demons more tragic than ever.

But it's unfair to judge on a book on its cover (or title) and after seeing Matthew Vaughn's film adaptation which releases this weekend, I can honestly say that Kick - Ass is much better than I first expected and Vaughn's big - screen version of the graphic novel features sharp writing, brilliant performances, and of course, indulgent action sequences and story - telling.

Ross offers something in his film adaptation of the novel that Collins, writing with Katniss's voice, never could: the experience of watching the Hunger Games, rather than being a contestant in them.

ATLAS SHRUGGED PART I Rather than take the time to come up with something witty to write about this heavy - handed screed that boasts all the production values of a bad made - for - TV movie from the early 1980s, I'll just substitute the word «novels» with «films» in this popular quote and be done with it: «There are two films that can change a 14 - year - old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged.

Written and directed by Dee Rees from a labyrinthine novel by Hillary Jordan, it's the kind of movie they rarely make any more — heavy on plot and character development and more literary than cinematic — but so skillfully directed, photographed and acted that it sucks you into its powerful emotional storyline from the start and holds interest to the finish.

Mr. Roth has been writing novels for more than 50 years and won the Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 «American Pastoral».

The first trailer for Dark Places, an adaptation for Gillian Flynn's second novel — she didn't write the screenplay for this one, though — was released yesterday and it looks much darker and more true crime - y than Gone Girl.

There's really not much to the plot other than for the protagonists to be chased around by the monster horde, while Stine seeks to write an all - new novel in the manner he wrote his old one (in manuscript form on a Smith - Corona typewriter that may have magic powers) with all of the characters he ever created on the hope that he can capture lightning in a bottle (or, in this case, a book) again.

Of course, the unique format of the novel (collected as a series of letters written by the titular wallflower to an anonymous recipient) was going to pose a number of difficulties for any filmmaker, so it was probably smart to hand over that responsibility to the one person who knows the book better than anyone else.

The few stories that King wrote under the pseudonym Richard Bachman are arguably more violent and cynical than his other work, and science fiction novel The Running Man is one of them.

It's been nearly 50 years since François Truffaut directed an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 (and more than 60 years since the novel was published), but with poorly - written slash fiction now running rampant, HBO is looking to thin the book herd a bit.

When I was writing the film, I wrote it more like a novel than a script because I had so much detail in my head relating to the visual and sonic landscape of it.

• Several readers of my entry on No Country for Old Men made the case that the film was less a straightforward Coens picture than a de facto collaboration between the brothers and Cormac McCarthy, who wrote the novel on which it was based.

Produced by Dore Schary and written by Eve Greene and Richard Macaulay from James Gunn's novel «Deadlier than the Male,» the movie failed to impress American critics upon its release.

He's the standard analogue man in an increasingly digital world; his books long out - of - print, Leonard doesn't take freelance gigs writing advertising copy because he deems it an objectionable compromise; he instead pecks away at a novel he's been working on for more than a decade, and enjoys simple get - togethers with his adult daughter Ariel (Lili Taylor, fantastic).

This is more of an inspired by situation than a straight adaptation, and director Alex Garland wrote the script for his Annihilation before the follow up novels were even finished.

None other than F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote the screenplay — or at least most of it --(from Erich Maria Remarque's novel) and the ultimate romantic, Frank Borzage, directed.

Kultgen's novel is fairly sexually explicit (though far less so than his other books, just as an FYI... in all seriousness though, go read everything he's written so far.

The fruits of young love Based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman and with an Oscar - winning screenplay written by James Ivory (yes, of Merchant Ivory heritage), «Call Me by Your Name» is more than just a bittersweet meditation on the enduring impact of a summer romance.

It's no wonder that he needs to do something to raise money, even if he is living with his mother though into his twenties, but he picks a profession that's even harder than writing a novel.

Many of us had been reluctant to touch a series that gave little more than six hours of television time to what is surely the richest novel ever written.

Based on the acclaimed novel by André Aciman and with an Oscar - winning screenplay written by James Ivory (yes, of Merchant Ivory heritage), «Call Me by Your Name» is more than just a bittersweet meditation on the enduring impact of a summer romance.

Its story - within - the - story, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an everyman whose wife and young daughter are abducted on a Texas highway late one night, is far more compelling than its framing story, in which Amy Adams mostly reads an unpublished novel (which tells the abduction story; it was written by her character's ex-husband, also played by Gyllenhaal) and looks miserably rich.