For all the thousands of pages of magical realism that Latin American novelists have produced over the years, nothing can quite measure up to the incredible and true stories found in this documentary evidence. ❋ John Feffer (2010)
I wonder if certain novelists — Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane spring to mind — would be more successful if either (a) their writing was less “masculine” or (b) more men read fiction. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Washington, D.C., whose non-political neighborhoods were so long neglected by novelists, is now blessed by two wonderful writers of intense local interests and loyalties, George Pelecanos and Edward P. Jones. ❋ Unknown (2009)
And of course the list of those writers who considered him the greatest of all western novelists is quite long, starting with Dostoevsky. ❋ Unknown (2010)
One of the timeworn dictums laid down for first novelists is "Whatever you do, steer clear of the first person!" ❋ Unknown (2010)
The Good News for novelists is this: More and more novels are getting great coverage through Internet media (see some of my previous posts). ❋ Unknown (2009)
As in his Booker-nominated novel, Mister Pip, this least parochial of novelists is adept here at picturing what happens when diverse cultures encounter one another. ❋ Unknown (2008)
On stage the senior novelists from the Commonwealth Writers Prize are reading. ❋ Unknown (2007)
There are certain novelists to whom I return again and again, Dickens, George Eliot, Henry James, ❋ Unknown (2007)
The problem for us Irish novelists is that we publish in London and are reviewed in England by English reviewers who often regard Irish novels as a failed attempt to be English. ❋ Sharon Bakar (2005)
Midcentury decades saw some political and economic stabilization and signs of greater cultural vitality as Latin American novelists and other intellectuals began to emerge. ❋ Unknown (2001)
And also the writers Juan Carlos Onetti, now sixty-six, one of the most distinguished Latin American novelists; Nelson Marra, a poet and short-story writer; and Mercedes Rein. ❋ Schoijet, Mauricio (1974)
For the tone of the speech put her painfully in mind of that which characterizes certain French novelists all very well in its place, but on Cecily's lips an intolerable discord. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
JEDDAH: Two papers on Omani literature that were read out at a forum organized by the Jeddah Literary Club were enough to catch the attention of the audience which had long been puzzled by the absence of Omani novelists from the Arabic literature scene.
Such an approach is common enough among poets, but it's rare among contemporary Latin American novelists, and several prominent Chileans loathed his work. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This year's event featured English-language writers like McEwan and Michael Ondaatje alongside Latin American novelists including Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. ❋ Unknown (2010)
We, the Latin American novelists of today, working within the tradition of engagement with our peoples which has enabled our great literature to develop - our poetry of substance - also have to reclaim lands for our dispossessed, mines for our exploited workers, to raise demands in favour of the masses who perish in the plantations, who are scorched by the sun in the banana fields, who turn into human bagasse in the sugar refineries. ❋ Unknown (1968)
I'm allowed to use my laptop during [earth hour] if I'm on battery power, right? I can't help it, I'm a [novelist] and my storyline is too [compelling] right now to quit. ❋ Maddie_1213 (2011)
[Dan] [Silva] is such an airport novelist.
[Dan Brown] could be considered an airport novelist, almost. ❋ Mkgeezy (2009)
Always wear an [athletic cup], so nobody accidentally kicks you in [the French] [novelist]. ❋ Cyberpope67,BC,Canada (2016)
Laugh if you want! [I won]’t always be a real estate novelist.
Another [suture] doctor?
Thanks [nurse]. Want to hear about my beehives?
No. Not really. ❋ Gnostic3 (2022)
