One German novelist concluded that there was no such thing as political writing among modern American novelists.

But what Plato has to say about them leaves no doubt that he would really have hated us modern novelists.

For the modern satirical novelist, life is hell.

Unlike most modern novelists, he has no patience with the unskilled and incompetent.

Do they bring to mind any modern novelist you know?

The point is that he suffered this as no other modern American novelist has thought necessary.

He was the first modern novelist to realize that men and women cannot solve one another's loneliness.

There have only been a few modern novelists who possessed this 19th-century ability to convey a sense of time and place.

In the eighteenth century the first modern novelists recognized that these genres could be used to tell a story.

The early modern novelist had remained a historian as much as the author of the most personal French contemporary memoir.