novelist
[nov-uh-list]
- a person who writes novels.
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Origin of novelist
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Contemporary Examples
“You have to be slightly innocent to be a novelist,” Martin Amis has observed.
Mailer would argue, for example, that timidity does more harm to the novelist than donning a mask of extreme self-confidence.
She is a novelist and former journalist who has reported from Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Russia.
Neither the novelist nor the novel could ever get away with it.
Compliments Are Nice, but Enough With the Cormac McCarthy ComparisonsWilliam Giraldi
October 21, 2014
“Novelist and not writer and even less a man of letters,” Georges Simenon said of a title he well deserved.
Historical Examples
Your novelist is a poor creature, as Carlyle might say—a mere reporter.
The Devil's DictionaryAmbrose Bierce
He apparently first met the novelist late in 1747 or early in 1748.
Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and PostscriptSamuel Richardson
For he was the English novelist whom I most admired these days.
The HarborErnest Poole
We do not say that art should be despised by the novelist; we only contend that it should not be polluted.
"But I never degraded her," exclaimed the novelist in despair.
FruitfulnessEmile Zola
novelist
- a writer of novels
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Word Origin and History for novelist
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