novelist

But frequently "platform" refers to the non-fiction content of a novel, the story's background, something that can be talked about almost as if the novelist is a journalist.

A Conversation with Marcus Sakey, author of The Blade Itself 2010

On the other hand, the novelist is able to use interior monologue to get at the characters 'inner voices and states of mind in a way that is not usually possible in screenplays.

David Levien - An interview with author 2010

Almost the whole capital of the novelist is the slow accumulation of unconscious observation -- absorption.

The Day I Spoke for Mr. Lincoln 1979

The indefinite article before "novelist" is revealing.

Dickens Our Contemporary 2002

The indefinite article before "novelist" is revealing.

Dickens Our Contemporary 2002

Yet at some point, any serious novelist is going to try to write from the perspective of the opposite sex, because the joy of writing fiction, as of reading it, is about getting outside your own head and into someone else's.

Amanda Craig discusses In A Dark Wood and describes the challenges of writing from a man's point of view 2010

Because the novelist is like a plate spinner, you know, the guy who spins a dozen plates all at the same time while making sure none of them drop?

NaNoWrimo Workshop – Constructing Scenes « Write Anything 2009

We were out one evening and during the course of a conversation I realized that writing, and being a novelist is NOT in fact the most important thing to me.

» Stories We Tell Ourselves Strocel.com 2009

A novelist is limited only by his or her imagination.

An Interview with Sidney Sheldon 2010

A novelist is the entire cast and creates moods with words instead of music.

An Interview with Sidney Sheldon 2010