He's a very famous novelist.

He is a novelist and poet.

In a middleaged novelist, it's nauseating.

I met a novelist and a poet.

He is not a poet but a novelist.

So let's bring a romance novelist into this conversation.

My goal in life is to be a novelist.

I have a friend whose father is a famous novelist.

No, no, if I want to, I can say, I'm a novelist.

No, no, if I want to, I can say, I'm a novelist.

Sweet hearted Coop (Mr. Showalter), now a novelist, still hasn't gotten over Katie (Marguerite Moreau).

Novelist Amy Tan digs deep into the creative process, looking for hints of how hers evolved.

The novelist Vladimir Nabokov said that the best reader has a combination of two very different temperaments, the artistic and the scientific.

That a bellboy in this very hotel assured me that this penthouse is permanently leased by an American novelist named Rodney Kent.

In the mid to late '80s, the novelist Whitley Strieber wrote a book called Communion, in which he described his own lifelong experiences being abducted by aliens.

As a novelist, when writing in Turkish I can encounter more than eight different words to stand for the headscarf. Yemeni, türban, eşarp, çarşaf, Each is different.

It's not immoral for a novelist to tell lies. In fact, the bigger the lies, the better lies, and the more the common folks and critics will praise you.

So a piece of mine may inspire a playwright or a novelist or a scientist, and that in turn may be the seed that inspires a doctor or a philanthropist or a babysitter.

It is time to abandon the either or discourse that pits science against humanities which the British chemist and novelist C.P. Snow identified more than a half century ago as an obstacle to human progress.

As a novelist, when writing in Turkish I can encounter more than eight different words to stand for the headscarf. Yemeni, türban, eşarp, çarşaf, Each is different. Different women wear the headscarf for different reasons.

A well known Dutch novelist voiced a rather typical response, saying that he didn t care much what happened to Morsi s supporters, for they were all Islamo fascists anyway. And foreign governments, including that of the United States, are averting their eyes.

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

Nor does Israel listen to the anguish of its own Ciceronian Zionists, perhaps best represented by the novelist Amos Oz. Israel has simply stopped seeking to reconcile its Jewish identity with its commitment to democracy, for it has stopped addressing the contradiction that the Israeli Palestinian question represents.

Unlike Hemingway s character, they are often more than willing to abort a girl and try for a boy. The novelist Salman Rushdie once put the question to supporters of abortion rights What should be done when a woman uses her power over her own body to discriminate against female fetuses?

It is time to abandon the either or discourse that pits science against humanities which the British chemist and novelist C.P. Snow identified more than a half century ago as an obstacle to human progress. It is time to seek out best practices that bridge this putative divide, and scale them up.

The Spanish French novelist and screenwriter Jorge Semprún, who died recently, was for many years a member of the Spanish Communist Party s Central Committee, and subsequently served as Minister of Culture in Spain s first post Franco Socialist government. Dissidents like Václav Havel had a decisive impact in the downfall of Eastern Europe s communist regimes.

Like murdered Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh and the British novelist Salman Rushdie before him, Vilks was criticized by liberals and the left for causing unrest with his art. In this respect, Vilks work must be regarded as having succeeded in exposing moral double standards no matter what one thinks of the drawing itself.

But, in large parts of Asia, the national interest whether building commercial ties or bolstering security is often subordinated to history and its hold on the popular imagination. As US Vice President Joe Biden just discovered on his tour of Japan, China, and South Korea, the American novelist William Faulkner s observation The past is never dead.

The great British novelist Joseph Conrad, born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski to Polish parents in Russian ruled Ukraine, said that words are the biggest enemy of reality. The appeal of national identity must not be turned into a collective smokescreen behind which inclusion becomes a disembodied dream coexisting with the communitarianism that is now emerging from its failure.

The first wrong Chinese was Gao Xingjian, a critical playwright, artist, and novelist, who received the Nobel Prize for literature in 2000, while living in exile in Paris. The latest is Liu Xiaobo, a literary critic and political writer, who was awarded this year s Nobel Prize for Peace while serving a prison sentence for subversion of the Communist regime.

In one influential interpretation, popularized by the novelist, Labour Party MP, and future Nobel Peace Prize laureate Norman Angell in 1910, the interdependency of the increasingly complex global economy made war impossible. But the opposite conclusion was equally plausible Given the extent of fragility, a clever twist to the control levers might facilitate a military victory by the economic hegemon.

This persistence is best reflected in the role that Nobel Prize winning novelist Mario Vargas Llosa plays in his native Peru. He was, of course, always an engagé in the early 1960 s, when he supported the Cuban Revolution when he later became one of Fidel Castro s most ferocious and effective critics and when he ran for Peru s presidency in 1989 (losing to Alberto Fujimori).

Imagine you're a shipwrecked sailor adrift in the enormous Pacific. You can choose one of three directions and save yourself and your shipmates but each choice comes with a fearful consequence too. How do you choose? In telling the story of the whaleship Essex, novelist Karen Thompson Walker shows how fear propels imagination, as it forces us to imagine the possible futures and how to cope with them.

That sort of responsiveness to popular sentiment in the legislative process gives the lie to the canard that French regulation is inflexible and hopelessly bureaucratic. In fact, the free market Anglo Saxon attitude sounds like nothing so much as the old prejudices about the French that have been around since the novelist Thackeray told English readers The Frenchman has after his soup a dish of vegetables, where you have one of meat.