novelist

[nov·el·ist]

One who writes novels

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An innovator; an asserter of novelty.

Noun
someone who writes novels


n.
An innovator; an asserter of novelty.

n.
A writer of news.

n.
A writer of a novel or novels.


Novelist

Nov"el*ist, n. 1. An innovator; an asserter of novelty. [Obs.] Cudworth. 2. [Cf. F. nouvelliste, It. novellista.] A writer of news. [Obs.] Tatler (178). 3. [Cf. F. nouvelliste.] A writer of a novel or novels.

An innovator; an asserter of novelty.

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Usage Examples

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

For the first-time novelist you've got to get up at 5:30 in the morning and write until 7, make breakfast and go to work. Or, come home and work for an hour. Everybody has an hour in their day somewhere.

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Other Usage Examples

Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in any other art form as a reader, I trust a novelist to give me his or her best effort, however flawed.

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