Synonyms for novelist
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : nov-uh-list |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈnɒv ə lɪst |
Définition of novelist
Origin :- "writer of novels," 1728, hybrid from novel (n.) + -ist. Influenced by Italian novellista. Earlier in English, it meant "an innovator" (1580s).
- noun fiction writer
- Your novelist is a poor creature, as Carlyle might say—a mere reporter.
- Extract from : « The Devil's Dictionary » by Ambrose Bierce
- He apparently first met the novelist late in 1747 or early in 1748.
- Extract from : « Clarissa: Preface, Hints of Prefaces, and Postscript » by Samuel Richardson
- For he was the English novelist whom I most admired these days.
- Extract from : « The Harbor » by Ernest Poole
- We do not say that art should be despised by the novelist; we only contend that it should not be polluted.
- Extract from : « Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 » by Various
- "But I never degraded her," exclaimed the novelist in despair.
- Extract from : « Fruitfulness » by Emile Zola
- It is silly to judge any Spanish novelist from the point of view of form.
- Extract from : « Rosinante to the Road Again » by John Dos Passos
- He is too much of a novelist for that, too deeply interested in people as such.
- Extract from : « Rosinante to the Road Again » by John Dos Passos
- She was annoyed, in the first place, because the novelist had been unable to stay to tea.
- Extract from : « Audrey Craven » by May Sinclair
- The novelist's father, James Lever, came to Ireland in 1787.
- Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I (of II) » by Edmund Downey
- Hall then proceeded to attack the novelist savagely in print.
- Extract from : « Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I (of II) » by Edmund Downey
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