Sentence examples for failed novelist from inspiring English sources

The failed novelist John Orton was now reborn as the successful playwright Joe Orton.

In her latest novel, The Finishing School, Muriel Spark observes the jealousy felt by Rowland, a teacher of creative writing and failed novelist, towards Chris, his talented pupil.

Their art-dealer daughter Sally Naomi Wattss) becomes infatuated with her boss (Antonio Banderas), while her failed novelist husband (Josh Brolin) also begins to stray.

Over the following decade, Thompson was, by turns, a prankster, an insubordinate air force enlistee, a copyboy at Time magazine and a failed novelist.

PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer's father, Jonathan Flynn, a homeless and alcoholic failed novelist… Writer recalls his father telling him that his father (the author's grandfather) invented the life raft.

In "Sideways," Giamatti plays a depressive, pedantic wine snob and failed novelist who takes a failed-actor friend on a wine-tasting road trip through California, in the course of which each suffers a failed romance.

"It's not like we're failed novelists," he said.

Even us failed novelists can get caught up in our own fictions.

Before then, the biggest advances went to "disgraced politicians and failed novelists," Wylie said in an interview.

American companies have these eccentric failed novelists and personally difficult visionary founders who are fantastic at creating brands that consumers around the world flock to and will pay extra for.

(Excerpted from Amis's new novel, "The Information")... Describes the adventures of Richard Tull, a failed British novelist, who is accompanying successful British cult novelist Gwyn Barry on a publicity tour of America... Tull interviews Barry by coming forward in the airliner from tourist to first class.