Sentences with phrase «writers of novel»

For unpublished writers of novel - length commercial fiction.

So all I could muster up by way of reply, at least for that moment, was: «Well, they're both American writers of novels, they both won the Nobel Prize, and they're both dead.»

BECOMING a writer of novels, even novels fuelled by science, was far from any destiny I would have chosen if you'd asked my younger self what it wanted to be.

She, the writer of the novels, created those character, those stories, and the overall arc of the series.

I think the writer of the novel just wanted to get all his witty little first person naration lines in verbatim.

Irvine Welsh, the writer of the novel Trainspotting, has been hired to write the pilot and Jody Hill, director of Observe & Report and co-creator of Eastbound & Down, will direct.

I also met with Julian Barnes, the writer of the novel.

I am a reader and writer of novel - length fiction.

Bath Novel Award 2,000 international prize for unpublished or independently published writers of novels for adults or young adults.

Plots Unlimited — For the Writer of Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Screenplays and Television Episodes.

Orna Ross is a London based Irish writer of novels and poems, and the founder of the Alliance of Independent Authors.

Margo Lanagan is an internationally acclaimed writer of novels and short stories.

Not exact matches

The now rich and famous writer of legal thrillers, Scott Turow, wrote his first novel using only his morning commutes into New York City on the train.

'' [It's] a novel by the Belgian - born French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of Roman Emperor Hadrian.

Twenty - five years ago, DeLillo stated his aspirations for novel - writing through the protagonist of Mao II (1991), himself a novelist: «A writer creates a character as a way to reveal consciousness, increase the flow of meaning.

• 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.

We await the publication of his novels with almost evangelical zeal, eager to be entertained and edified by him as by no other contemporary American writer.

The novels and other writings of this Portuguese writer have for years been noted for their strident atheism and attacks on the Catholic Church.

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: Speaking of books in Portuguese, one might as well add one by the towering genius of Brazilian letters, who did everything that would be attempted by «surrealist» or «magical realist» or absurdist writers a century later, and did it all much better; The Posthumous Memoirs is as fantastic and exuberant and hilarious as any of his works, and is also surely the best novel written in the voice of a deceased narrator.

Rather, argued Crane, «the plot of any novel or drama is the particular temporal synthesis effected by the writer of the elements of action, character, and thought that constitute the matter of his invention» (TN 141).

The author of seven novels, beginning in 1977 with Staggerford (the imaginary Minnesota town where most of his stories unfold), Hassler is a writer - in - residence and English teacher at St. John's University, Minnesota.

It may seem incongruous to review a book by a reigning Pope alongside a novel by a writer famed for her Vampire Chronicles, but both bring us face to face with the mystery of the Incarnation.

Lots of novel readers — from the highest brow to the lowest — nod politely when the science - fiction writer Gene Wolfe is mentioned.

This is the picture that lawyer - writer Louis Auchincloss presents in the novel Diary of a Yuppie (Houghton Mifflin, 1986).

A graduate of Cambridge University (1968), Rushdie worked as an actor and in advertising until the success of his second novel, Midnight's Children (1981, Booker Prize), allowed him to work as a writer full - time.

The result — a tale of a young teenage boy who believes his epic sci - fi novel has been stolen for use by one of his writer heroes, and the battle that ensues between them — is a movie that this time might be too strange for a mainstream audience, but based on the Hesses» track record, could very well gain a cult following for years.

This was good training for a kid who would one day become a writer of adventure and suspense novels, but it also taught me that words and thoughts should have integrity.

The most negative critical reaction came about because of his use of a fragment from writer Vera Panova's reminiscences in his novel Maidenhair, which was misunderstood as plagiarism.

The sins of imperialism stain the British as well as the French, and if there is a lacuna in my historical fiction, it is the absence of a novel dealing with the kind of cruelties that have been exposed by writers such as William Dalrymple (The Last Mughal) and Ferdinand Mount (The Tears of the Rajas).

The novel is written in the form of a journal, the writer being an Amish man with a wife, daughter, and son.

Modern writers who say they believe in the resurrection, while denying the empty tomb, are using the term «resurrection» in a novel sense of their own.

Though 45 years separate Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple, the two novels embody many similar concerns and methods, ones that characterize the black women's literary tradition — a tradition now in full flower through the work of such writers as Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Gloria Naylor, Toni Cade Bambara, Ntozake Shange and Audre Lorde.

James defends the crime novel in the hands of these writers because they never trivialize crime:

The events in the third novel, Unnatural Causes (1967), take place at Monksmere Head, a point of land on the Suffolk coast where several writers live.

Similarly, a person whose objective is to acquire a sense for a particular historical period and a person whose objective is to savor a skilled writer's use of the mother tongue will have to bring somewhat different sets of abilities to a historical novel; they will have different understandings of the same novel.

In that novel, the great Russian writer shows Ivan, Aloysha, and Dmitri as caught in this dilemma of choice; and they are appraised, in their personal quality, as blessed or damned, as we might put it, not by the arbitrary fiat of a deus ex machina, but by the ineluctable working out of what they have made of themselves, what they have become, as this is evaluated in terms of what in an earlier chapter we called whatever ultimately determines and assesses true values in the scheme of things.

When Publishers Weekly, in its religion section, talked about one of my novels and one of John Updike's as crossover books by mainstream writers, I doubt that our editors at Knopf were pleased.

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.»

The man who more than any other brought Maritain into the Catholic faith was the self - described «pilgrim of the absolute,» the mendicant layman and writer Leon Bloy, author of the searing novel The Woman Who Was Poor.

Updike presents the reader of his novels and stories with the pseudo — wise men of today's society — with Jimmy, the big Mouseketeer who quotes Socrates; with the neon owl that advertises pretzels; with Ken Whitman, the scientist living in Tarbox who is considered intelligent in his field but who lacks a basic understanding of life; with Bech the writer, honored in direct proportion to the decline of his literary production; with Connor, the efficient, well - trained administrator of the old people's home who fails to comprehend as much of life's mystery as his simple and sometimes senile wards do.

It is also what some critics call an «encyclopedic novel,» at once a fictional distillation of a civilization — in this case, that of medieval Britain, or at least a vision of it — complete with the arcana of various subjects (in this case, medieval warfare, falconry, heraldry, hagiography, psalters, scholasticism, and so on) that you expect from Pynchon and DeLillo, and the highly individual vision of a writer who is using Malory's vast romance as a springboard for his own imagination.

In this deeply introspective novel, Strout explores a writer's tenuous relationship with her mother, and on a deeper level about how we must inevitably wrestle with the histories of family and place that have formed us.

He was a prolific writer and wrote 81 Perry Mason novels and a total of 181 books, including many nonfiction books.

Was Lake Hopatcong really 35 feet deep, as was asserted by a writer on the then - novel sport of scuba diving?

I'd become a writer of crime novels and thrillers and I was more interested in books than in football.

The writer of the best - selling pro football novel watches with dismay and reluctant admiration as Hollywood transforms his book into a movie

And senior contributing writer Frank Deford spins the story of a ballplayer accused of a crime in the novel The Entitled.

I am Leah DeCesare, owner of Mother's Circle, LLC, parenting and novel writer, blogging about the adventures of everyday family life.

I'm Lauren Wayne, career writer, author of mystery & romance novels, professional blogger, and natural parent.

Russell Crowe named his son Tennyson (as in writer Alfred Tennyson), model Niki Taylor named her son Hunter (think gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson), and Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake named their son Silas (title character of George Eliot's novel Silas Marner).