The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman has inspired and provoked writers as various as Dickens, Joyce and Salman Rushdie.
All stories -- all fiction, you might say -- are about human trouble, instances of which animate and provoke the writer.
The speech was widely condemned for its lack of charity towards the departed king and provoked the writer Gerald Bullett to publish a satirical rhyme: My Lord Archbishop, what a scold you are!
Paul has addressed that controversy head-on, defending Hunter as a talented and thought-provoking writer whose previous work was designed for political shock value.
Hasn't the time come when we are able to speak our minds?" Not infrequently, the guest writer provokes "that by now familiar wisp of a smile I've noted on faces whenever a ticklish subject is brought up".
When an article about her in The Los Angeles Times provoked a letter writer to claim Ms. Kazan was only getting ahead because of her family relationship, she said: "I felt really hurt by it and bad for the person.
With the awkward rapprochement with Moscow, the name has been changed from the Museum of Unconditional Surrender — a name that provoked one fine writer, the Croatian Dubravka Ugresic, into using it as a title for a moving novel of exile and history — to the distinctly unimaginative German-Russian Museum Berlin-Karlshorst Berlin-Karlshorst
Though it might seem odd to declaim in August about a novel that is not scheduled for publication until Sept. 4, nothing is odd, really, when it comes to Mr. Amis and the strangely potent brew of envy, unease, schadenfreude and fury he inevitably provokes in fellow writers here.
Regarding the photograph of Laura, the sexist or sexualized descriptions of her from Allen and other writers provoked discussion.
The new law continued to provoke debate among writers and cricketers; many former players claimed that the alteration had caused a deterioration in batting and reduced the number of shots played on the off side.
"Two weeks ago, we identified a writer who was very active in provoking people to demonstrate against the government," he told me.
