A great American novelist wrote that you can't go home again.

But both novelists know the sea and write with a good deal of authority.

A novelist doesn't write to space, of course; 80,000 words, 100,000, it's up to the writer to say when the story is done.

The idea was to observe not just what the novelists wrote, but how they lived.

Of course, ambition wasn't the only thing novelists wrote about.

It's like I'm a novelist from the days when novelists wrote good things.

A publisher and novelist who was used to having great control over his life writes of a situation in which he found himself helpless.

"A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme."

Even the family's novelists on occasion wrote books with similar plots.

"It looks to me," the novelist wrote his friend, "as though your stand on Jennie would either make or break you."