How to Use novelist in a Sentence

novelist

noun
  • Where oh where are all the straight white male novelists?
    — Emily Temple, Literary Hub, 15 Dec. 2025
  • That sounds like good news for the baristas and the novelists.
    — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2026
  • For a novelist, what are the short stories for?
    — Jane Ciabattari september 25, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
  • How zines taught Jeff Miller to be a novelist.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Apr. 2026
  • How zines taught Jeff Miller to be a novelist.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • This is a story that just grew, like stories do with novelists.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 12 Feb. 2025
  • When the past revolves around a gaping wound, a novelist must give shape to the void.
    — Ruth Margalit, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Closer to home, at least for Eliza, the frauds are novelists.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Class as well as women’s rights play major roles in this dime novelist’s life.
    — Literary Hub, 11 Feb. 2026
  • No two lyricists write lyrics the same way, just as no two novelists write novels the same way.
    — Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • But of course our novelists would be drawn to these themes—they’re novelists.
    — Ginny Hogan august 22, Literary Hub, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Back in Seoul, star novelist and No 1.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • Sebastian is a novelist in his spare time, and has written three books so far.
    — Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica, 2 Aug. 2021
  • The book contains all the portents of the novelist readers would come to know.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2022
  • So, by the way, does the fact that Ida doesn’t seem aware that the novelist has possessed her at all.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 4 Mar. 2026
  • On a small scale, Crane the graphic novelist, may have to delay his book tour.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 20 Apr. 2022
  • Tóibín, though best known as a novelist, got his start with writing poetry at the age of twelve.
    — Jazz Boothby, The New York Review of Books, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Cook went on to become a teacher and a novelist, and died last year at the age of 95.
    — Rebecca Dube, NBC News, 12 July 2023
  • Wright's also a playwright, a novelist and performs in a blues band.
    — Hamilton Cain Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 4 June 2021
  • My father’s best friend was the novelist James Salter.
    — Literary Hub, 4 May 2026
  • That’s what has happened, this year, with the novelist Cameron Reed.
    — Stephanie Burt, New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2026
  • This might sound like a novelist’s embroidery, but with Straight, there is no doubt.
    — Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2022
  • The attack left the 77-year-old prize-winning novelist blind in one eye.
    — Carolyn Thompson, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2025
  • This doubt—about the role of the novelist—is as much the center of Smith’s book as the trial.
    — Lynn Steger Strong, The New Republic, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Notable poets and novelists led the way.
    — Michael Gorra, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The novelist begins with a progress report.
    — Michael Gorra, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
  • Jane is a struggling novelist on the verge of getting her life back together.
    — Literary Hub, 19 May 2026
  • Who wants to sit through a fictitious novelist’s clumsy drafts?
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 14 Feb. 2026
  • Her father was Scott Spencer, a novelist.
    — Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Working for Delmer may have been the best training a future novelist could get.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2025

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'novelist.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: