Quotes of: Graphic-novels Keyword

Cecy, I do think it is unfair. People in novels are fainting all the time, and I never can, no matter how badly I need to.

Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot

She would let a speeding automobile hit her to show them all how unloved she was.

One Pill Makes You Smaller: A Novel

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

The Paris Review Interviews, IV

Confidence is not a wilted plant that can be brought back to life with a bit of water. It is a highly flammable object. Doubt sets it aflame and destroys it irreparably.

The Pianist in the Dark: A Novel

Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and souls.

The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel

Even when we strive for perfection, life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel

True love is loving yourself thoroughly so that you can love another unconditionally.

The Private Emotions Trilogy Romance Novels

Let me in, Emily, and I swear to you that you'll never regret it.” Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions

The Private Emotions Trilogy Romance Novels

I no longer believe in love," she said bitterly. "When people claim to have lost their heart, it's usually only their wits that have vanished.

The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel

I would advise a stupid woman always to follow her hsuband - however, a smart woman should rely on her own instincts.

The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.

Postscript to the Name of the Rose

I wrote a novel because I had a yen to do it. I believe this is sufficient reason to set out to tell a story.

Postscript to the Name of the Rose

The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.

Take Off Your Mask

A picture with one word on it is like a thousand-and-one-word piece of literature. At this rate, I should be done with my million-word novel in about 999 minutes.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

I’m trying to be a better gangsta, so I’m learning how to play the ukulele. I'm also trying to figure out how to rap a romance novel, like The Notebook.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence.

This Book Has No Title

Don't worry about it. The right thing will come at the right time.

Until the End of Time: A Novel

Show me a fantasy novel about Chernobyl--there isn't one! Because reality is more fantastic.

Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

We Were Liars

There's an old saying," Buck said. "A hundred things can go wrong in a holdup, and if you can think of fifty of them you're a damn genius.

A World of Thieves: A Novel

You really are a chameleon, aren't you? Fitting in wherever you go. "Aren't we all?" she said...

The Witch of Belladonna Bay: A Novel