Chosen by impressive writers and critics – including Elizabeth Bowen, Philip Larkin, George Steiner, Saul Bellow, AS Byatt, Ruth Rendell, John Carey – these shortlists demanded, at least, some respect.
There are numberless more, equally impressive writers at work in China today; I trust publishers at the London book fair will boldly go and discover, as enthusiastically as I did, this complex and rich new literary world.
Shepard is an impressive writer, but I wasn't impressed until I finished the book: I was too busy being enthralled.
Although Marlowe was the most impressive writer among them, Greene was the wits' wit, their Peter Cook, the man they all looked up to even in the absence of any work equal to his talent.
Cavendish was a sufficiently brilliant and impressive writer that she was able to publish some of her work without assistance (Whitaker 2002, 154), including her very first work [Poems and Fancies, 1653], but many of her writings were published with the help of her well-connected husband.
Mankell is, without doubt, one of the most impressive crime writers at work in Europe today.
If the judges know what they're doing, they'll introduce some impressive young writers instead, among them Alan Warner, a Scotsman, Tom McCarthy (a favourite of Zadie Smith's), whose third novel "C" comes out next week, and Emma Donoghue, an Irish writer who lives in Canada.
The excavations are impressive but writer felt his impressions were blurred and he was not satisfied until he reached Rome and was given Jay Deiss's recent book on Herculaneum.
With so many ordinary facts lurking behind its impressive name, writer's block may come to seem just that, a name, and names can be dangerous.
And an impressive list of writers has tried to facilitate that crossing from print to screen.
An impressive list of writers and musicians have graced the Book Slam stage, from Adele to Zadie Smith.
