Sentence examples for novel requires from inspiring English sources

I think a novel requires a lot of commitment to suffer and endure your characters.

Whatever the source, the novel requires Tom Robinson's conviction as surely as the town itself does.

The novel requires some stamina on the part of the reader.

With this, Soueif alerts us to the fact that her novel requires -- and deserves -- an active, attentive audience.

A novel requires a special angle or approach, whether in structure or language or theme, to justify itself.

But a landslide of details isn't all a satirical novel requires, and Cheever doesn't quite measure up in the showboating department.

Preparation for the role of serial-killing 80s alpha-male Patrick Bateman in the screen adaptation of the Bret Easton Ellis novel required dumb-bells as well as braces.

If all this sounds a little involved, it is, and the first few chapters of the novel required some paging back and forth.

For all the acts of cruelty committed between its covers, Sara Paretsky's BLEEDING KANSAS (Putnam, $25.95) might as well have been a crime novel requiring the services of her series sleuth, V. I. Warshawski.

And "Presumptive," like most political novels, requires a substantial point-of-view character who's willing to make an offer of his soul.

Yet managing or restoring novel ecosystems requires novel strategies and understandings for the effective management of these rapidly changing systems.