"Novelist" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... old Italian novelist—a horse fell, as in a fit, with his rider. The people, running from all sides, gathered about the steed, and many and opposite were the opinions of the sudden malady of the animal; as many the prescriptions tendered for his recovery. At length, a great hubbub arose ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, September 25, 1841 • Various
... and novelist, many years resident in Vienna, whose fantastic stories and fairy tales are well known in Europe, has written the following ...
— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers
... to hit upon a novelist who shows wider divergences in his work than Booth Tarkington, not because he gives in it any special evidence of versatility—a word which implies something like genius, or at least talent. This peculiarity is due rather to an arbitrary method in ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various
... blood-red figure on the black-robed scaffold? Shall we ever think of Monmouth pleading for his life with James II, without remembering the picture which hung last year upon these walls? Is there no affinity between novelist and our many painters of ordinary scenes, with their kindred endeavor to shed light and beauty on the hopes and fears, the duties and sorrows of human life? Nay, even if the preacher and the divine may claim any part in the domain of ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O • Various
... others died wrecks of their former selves, and many, without a vicious instinct, became criminals and outcasts. Many of the real scenes in early California life exceed in strangeness and interest any of the mere products of the brain of the novelist. ...
— Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete • Ulysses S. Grant
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