Quotes of: Graphic-novels Keyword

One always expects something else.

Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Heretics

Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.

The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.

Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon

It's only terrible to have nothing to wait for.

Three Comrades: A Novel of Germany Between the Wars

If a tree is bent, every goat will jump on it.

The Winter Palace: A Novel of Catherine the Great

Writers are notoriously unable to know about themselves. Faulkner thought 'The Fable' was his best novel. F. Scott Fitzgerald liked 'Tender Is the Night,' an experimental novel.

Joyce Carol Oates

It's interesting, isn't it? Being in the world.

Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in Feudal Japan

Only love can endure this random life.

AmericA, Inc.: A Novel in Stream of Voice

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind.

Thomas Keneally

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

Mark Haddon

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

Milan Kundera

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

Edwin Muir

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

Gene Wolfe

'The Fourth Hand' was a novel that came from twenty years of screenwriting concurrently with whatever novel I'm writing.

John Irving

Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.

Christopher Golden

I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.

William Gibson

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that at...

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Producing works of art doesn't often count as appropriate intellectual work in an arts department: yet the equivalent in a science department, doing physics or chemistry, does. So why is it that in universities writing about novels is thought to be a...

Out of Our Minds: Learning to Be Creative

For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything w...

On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells

We are always sure that the heroine is fiery and passionate, which is quite an achievement when the plot has had to keep her passive, inactive and loveless for long stretches. Up to the point when Jane's love declares itself, the novel establishes th...

Reading The Victorian Novel: Detail Into Form