| He manages to bring to the stage the kind of free association and wildness of human thought that is generally the realm of the novelist. |
| He has claimed that he never wanted to be a novelist despite the fact the he has published so many books. |
| We are so accustomed to his immense tidiness as a novelist, that the slightest muddle in his work looks like chaos. |
| No novelist can afford to be precious about the film adaptations of their work. |
| It is a gifted novelist, indeed, who can make ordinary events come alive, and who can interest the reader in ordinary, even dull, characters. |
| He is a novelist and an Arabist whose scholarship leads him into intriguing discussions. |
