If a contemporary novelist were to write a book saying this, they would be laughed at for such immature metaphysics.

His attacks on some of our best-known contemporary novelists have already served to swell the silly season news pages.

One battles continually through sentences halfa-dozen pages long, struggling to retain the drift while being diverted into parentheses (containing other parentheses) more extended than most contemporary novelists' paragraphs.

We offer an informal guide to one of the world's pre-eminent contemporary novelists.

Perhaps contemporary novelists, playwrights and poets can help us in that task.

I am also the greatest crime novelist who ever lived.

After retiring, he worked briefly as a crime novelist.

Until he became successful as a crime novelist, he was often quite poor.

He debuted as a crime novelist in 1934.

A master of narrative misdirection, his earlier novels are viewed among crime novelists as benchmarks in the form.

It was her fifth book, but it might as well have been her first: its success saw her labelled as an historical novelist.

If the professional historian need not always reflect on the purposes of history, the historical novelist should.

True crimes often make good subjects for the historical novelist.

Once again, she perfectly combines the dramatic colour and timing of an historical novelist with the truth to fact of a scrupulous historian.

Still, he agrees it's an interesting time to be a historical novelist.

But when a famous, prize-winning literary novelist recently turned his hand to crime fiction, he felt obliged to put it out under another name.

The average literary novelist can expect to be paid an advance of less than 10,000 for their debut novel.

Everyone loves a good page-turner full of aspirational scene-setting, but few literary novelists dare to try it.

Preaching it doesn't compare to being an evolutionary scientist who can write better prose than most literary novelists.

There have been very few literary novels that have dealt interestingly with the world of finance, perhaps because very few literary novelists have a profound understanding of that world.

Two billion copies of her books have been sold, making her the most commercially successful novelist yet.

Many come for a bit of artistic schadenfreude: the sight of a hugely successful novelist coming apart musically.

He prides himself on being both a successful novelist and a serious scholar, writing books about literary theory and criticism.

He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers.

After he started writing, he almost immediately became a successful novelist and prolific short story writer, eventually authoring 31 books and almost 200 published articles and poems.