K. Rowling among novelists for whose publishers the deadliest sin is spoiling the plot.
The people who inspired me to begin with were novelists Raymond Carver, Kurt Vonnegut.
Novelists must choose between first-person and third-person point of view (unless they're Jay McInerney).
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Among those who received pay-outs were the ancestors of novelists George Orwell and Graham Greene.
Traditionalist novelists sought to depict a world in which there was a reassuring sense of order.
Her characters are sometimes as grotesque as those of some other novelists of the Southern School.
We could have been paleontologists, novelists, engineers, or if we were really lucky, worked for Google.
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Ireland these years produces poets and novelists at the same rate as hideous bungalows.
Particularly in the south, Italy has plenty of exotic places for novelists to explore.
Since the overall prize was introduced in 1985, it has been won predominantly by novelists and poets.
And we've been asking the prospective novelists among you to send us your first lines for your novels.
His skill at capturing the texture of daily experience set a gold standard for future generations of novelists.
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One is that novelists and scientists should perhaps try to avoid combustible topics beyond their areas of expertise.
Few so-called literary novelists earn a living writing these days they teach or apply for grants or do freelance journalism.
In turning to reality, the shared world that these French novelists depict and people with characters is hardly inviting.
Producers frown on screenplays of more than 120 pages, which forces a ruthlessness that many novelists would recoil from.
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This may be recognized more often by novelists and poets than by scientists.
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Novelists will often display a predilection for a particular narrative point of view.
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The Channel tunnel has raised hopes of closer Anglo-French relations in the most Francophile of English novelists, Julian Barnes.
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Other novelists, such as Leonardo Sciascia, sometimes called the conscience of Sicily, followed.
"The Old Bunch" is a reminder of why novelists were once regarded as gods gods in the sense of being omniscient.
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Novelists will be able to scrub away the little anachronisms that can make even a recently published story feel dated.
The last few years have ushered several talented graphic novelists into the mainstream, such as Daniel Clowes and Joe Sacco.
Unlike the one-dimensional portraits created by many other mystery writers and novelists these days, Grafton's writing brings Kinsey Millhone to life.
Or are all novelists who focus their works on capitalists, entrepreneurs and business, forced into marching to the lefty muckraker beat?
The novelists who wrote under realism's banner had to know more than psychology, the heart and mind in all their wanderings.
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Novelists trafficking in the present would do well to abandon their lingering prejudices against historical fiction as something ready-made and second-rate.
Politicians, preachers, lawyers, bureaucrats and, one suspects, journalist-novelists like himself, also flunk his test of masculinity by engaging in namby-pamby occupations.
The content of the conference became ever broader, incorporating scientists, business leaders, novelists, social entrepreneurs and movers and shakers of all stripes.
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"So many sick things have happened, " says Haruki Murakami, one of Japan's leading novelists (A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle).
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