All I really wanted to do besides study politics was write novels or be in a band.
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He later became a correspondent for both the Sunday Times and The Observer while continuing to write novels.
Would being a father mean I would have to abandon my writing, or could I, like many of my white friends and teachers who were writers, simply depend on my wife to support me and our child while I continued to write novels and poetry?
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He continued to write novels, often based on his own wartime experiences throughout his life - perhaps most poignantly in his first book A Crowd is not Company, which took its lead from his experience as a German prisoner of war during World War II.
By now, Hiaasen could easily retire from newspapers and write his novels.
"When they write those novels, they share their secret, personal problems, and when they read by mobile phones, they can hide what they are reading, " explained Toshie Takahashi, an associate professor of media studies at Rikkyo University in Tokyo.
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But he continued to write and his novels, poems and essays and in his later years he was an outspoken critic of the Nigerian government.
In the mold of Rushdie, Ghosh (The Circle of Reason), Sealy (The Trotter-Nama) and Tharoor (The Great Indian Novel) tried to write capacious first novels, overbrimming with characters, conceits, puns and magical happenings.
For fun I write best-selling novels under assumed names like Carl Hiassen and John Grisham.
She went on to write seven more crime novels, one of which was adapted and filmed by Alfred Hitchcock, and several of which were adapted for radio and television, including Brat Farrar, The Franchise Affair and The Singing Sands.
And yet he has continued to write, producing six more novels, two volumes of essays on wine and a bevy of journalism.
Mr Cornwell wants to write another three or four Sharpe novels and then draw that series to a close.
He wants to write it like a police procedural, and has been reading novels by the best-selling crime writer Michael Connelly to study the genre.
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