There was abundant truth in what Dickens said, to take the great novelist as the type of this group of foreign critics.
She was not a good singer," says some novelist of his heroine, "but she sang with an inspiration such as good singers rarely indulge in.
No doubt the mere fashionable novelist loses terribly by the change: when all classes may wear the same dress-coat, what is left for him?
The French novelist seems to have been one of those who praised tobacco without using it much himself.
The Italians have a proverb of singular depth which the novelist recalled at that moment.
When Realidad was performed, Galdós was the most popular novelist in Spain, the peer of any in his own generation, and the master of the younger men of letters.
Galdós will always be thought of first as a novelist, since as a novelist he labored during his most fertile years, and the novel best suited his luxuriant genius.
In this book the novelist put his original crude essay completely into the shade, and added one to the masterpieces of the world.
In depicting the character of Lovelace, the novelist had a difficult task, for to have made him a mere ruffian would have been to ruin the whole purpose of the piece.
To enable the novelist to proceed, each personage has a confidant.
The novelist showed great wisdom in not attempting to repeat too quickly the success of his first work.
The dead novelist signed his second name on his title-pages and his private correspondence 'Louis.
I sent a copy of these verses to Samoa, but unfortunately the great novelist died before they reached it.
The novelist or essayist, let us say, fashions his language more or less in accordance with his own mood, with his immediate aim in writing, with the capacity of his expected readers.
For the deeply imaginative line of lyric verse, like the imaginative conception of novelist or dramatist, often puzzles or repels a poet's contemporaries.
Unless," added Hilliston, with a sneer, "you follow the example of the novelist and elucidate the mystery by means of the scarfpin.
The Larcher affair caused a great deal of talk at the time, but it is certainly remarkable that a novelist should have made use of it for fictional purposes after the lapse of so many years.
All the novelist knew was that I had given evidence at the trial, and that the dead man had been my dearest friend.
After a visit to Clarence Cottage I believe the view taken of the case by the novelist to be the right one.
Pierre Loti and who has the courage to publish his opinion as the French novelist has done, he can thoroughly count on all the help, assistance and gratitude of the whole Turkish race, much maligned in American literature.
After all Pierre Loti has used his exceptional talents as a novelist and poet to bring about a personal touch between the French and the Turks.
Is there not an American novelist or poet who is willing to render the same service to his own country?
His talent as a novelist was diametrically opposed to the idealism of Conscience.
There could be no more appropriate place for a sensational novelistto locate a murder.
You describe her as completely in that sentence, Lady Frances, as a novelist could in eight pages," said Quentin.
It's to be hoped no novelistmay attempt it," said Quentin.
As thenovelist sows, so must he reap; as his plot is, such must its consummation be.
To be what he is, the novelist must be a man with large powers of sympathetic observation.
No novelistattains to the assertion of this spiritual prerogative.
The novelist catches the cry of suffering before it has obtained the strength, or general recognition, which are pre-supposed when the newspaper becomes its mouthpiece.
This circumstantial view of life, if we may use the term, being the only one that the novelist can convey, prudence is his highest morality.
From this narrowness of view the novelist may do much to deliver us.
But this ill result will equally ensue, whether the art in which he finds his nurture be that of the novelist or that of the poet.
The novelist does with inferior means, and for minds at a lower level, what the dramatist may do for a mind at its highest.
The glory which he casts on life is far higher than any which the novelist knows, but it is only on certain of the elements of life that it can be cast at all.
The novelistmust express himself in prose, because this is his view of life: and this must be his view of life, because he thus expresses himself.
No novelist ever dares take an ugly, squinting, crooked or hump-backed heroine.
But what, you will ask, does a modern novelist want with a general philosophy when he has made it his business merely to describe what he observes in the particular lives of individual men and women?
Tired of this, he enters the inevitable café of the intellectual young novelist and moralises on the nightmare oppressiveness of profane love.
As a novelist he keeps closer to actual life than the others, because he has lived his incidents before he writes about them.
Why shouldn't a novelist describe life as he sees it?
What is good for the novelist is good for every man.
No novelist except Gissing has dared to write the story of a failure who remained a failure till the end.
No novelist would dare to give us so paradoxical a picture.
It is as the novelist who wrote two of the most interesting novels of our time, Ladies Whose Bright Eyes and The Good Soldier.
This is not so bad in him as it would be in a novelist of our day.
After all, it is a matter of business; and the insurgent novelist should consider the situation with coolness and common-sense.
All this is not saying Scott was not a great man; he was a great man, and a very great novelist as compared with the novelists who went before him.
Fuller we have reason to hope, from what he has already done, an American novelist of such greatness that he may well leave being the great American novelist to any one who likes taking that role.
I find every man interesting, whether he thinks or unthinks, whether he is savage or civilized; for this reason I cannot thank the novelist who teaches us not to know but to unknow our kind.
This was the 'Marta y Maria' of Armando Palacio Valdes, a novelist who delights me beyond words by his friendly and abundant humor, his feeling for character, and his subtle insight.
We drift half-unconsciously into the language of the novelist who has recalled these old days so vividly.
Fielding and Dickens are each inimitable in their way; the earlier novelist concentrates on humanity in its many sorts and conditions; Dickens, on the contrary, revels in surrounding details.
The novelisthas spared no language--has minced no words--to describe the violent scenes of a violent time.
Alexandre Dumas was a novelist who knew his history.
JULY 13th The slum novelist gains his effects by describing the same grey mist as draping the dingy factory and the dingy tavern.
Thus, for instance, he really loved liberty, as only a novelist can love it, a man mainly occupied with the variety and vivacity of men.
Hall then proceeded to attack the novelist savagely in print.
The Irish novelist readily adapted himself to life in "the very commercial but very profligate city of Florence" (as Father Prout describes it).
He was smitten with the military fever which had smitten his father before he had adopted medicine as a profession; but the novelist's son was trained in a school which differed widely from the school in which the novelist had been trained.
The novelist found his admonisher in a low state of spirits, and he exerted himself to rouse him from his despondency.
The novelist determined to economise, and he tried to think where it would be easiest to begin.
And then the restless novelist could think of nothing but of his speedy return to the land of his birth.
I have written to John a long prosy narrative of our Splugen journey--which really, albeit a novelist par metier, I have not exaggerated.
A younger daughter of the novelist witnessed from a window in the house the capsizing of the skiff.
A visitor to the Levers in the summer of 1862 describes the novelist as being "all animation.
Then follows a further description of the Irish novelist and of his ways.
A serious attack of gout in the stomach prostrated the novelist in June, and for weeks he was unable to sit at his desk.
The novelist does his best work when abstracted from the actual world and living in its ideal counterpart which for the time he is imagining.
As actor, magazine writer, dramatist, journalist and novelist Rede acquired fame but not wealth.
