Maybe even his self-deprecating novelist self... or high-brow playwright self.
Stemming from his own experience grappling with self-doubt and career tumult, he wrote The Revisionist nearly 10 years ago and starred as the self-involved novelist, David, in the 2013 world premiere at New York's Cherry Lane Theatre.
Garner plays the encouraging square to Wallace's self-deprecating novelist, who is in prime form.
Romance has often been all that was inimical to the self-respecting novelist.
Bernard is a fiercely competitive, self-regarding novelist and creative writing teacher whose career is on the skids.
Howard wasn't a stylist or a deeply insightful reader, and she wasn't a very self-conscious novelist.
The chance of a self-published novelist getting their book reviewed in the mainstream press is the same as the chance of my dog not eating a sausage.
William Gay, a self-taught novelist from rural Tennessee who emerged from obscurity in his late 50s with critically praised books in the Southern Gothic style, died last Thursday at his home, a log cabin in Hohenwald, southwest of Nashville.
It filled his pockets with cash, and, in at least one case it seems to have worked, helping to create an ebook bestseller out of a self-published novelist.
Jesse is now a nervously self-conscious novelist, whose first book — it is, of course, a fictional account of his night with Celine — has just been published in France.
I wasted my time and money on reasonable things: secondhand books, dramatic spices, jackets that I hoped might transform me into the well-groomed and self-possessed novelist I still intend, one day, to become.
