Quotes of: Graphic-novels Keyword

I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11 felt to me like a piece of the plot; the novel wasn't wrestling with what 9/11 meant. And 'N...

Amy Waldman

Suddenly he knew all the things he should have said.

Flotsam: A Novel of World War II

He who whets his steel, whets his courage

Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae

He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

Butcher Bird: A Novel of The Dominion

Being able to embrace contradictions is a sign of intelligence. Or insanity.

Butcher Bird: A Novel of The Dominion

Our willingness to write truthfully brings the story to life.

The 90-Day Novel: Unlock the story within

What is the purpose of a city if not to grant the greatest of gifts, anonymity?

I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

How can she tell the difference between freedom and unburdening?

I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

History will remember this," she says. "I do not need to.

Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution

When all dreams wane, same are loss and gain

Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes

I give people 'If You Came Softly' when they demand proof that novels for teens can be as good as the best novels for adults.

Justine Larbalestier

I believe that the short story is as different a form from the novel as poetry is, and the best stories seem to me to be perhaps closer in spirit to poetry than to novels.

Tobias Wolff

Since I can't write the greatest American novel, I'm going to write the longest American novel.

Thomas Steinbeck

A lot of Chinese martial arts films were based on Chinese martial arts novels. And these novels created a world of putting history, calligraphy, and martial arts into one.

Donnie Yen

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.

Stephen Rea

I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?

Irwin Shaw

A novel is a collision of ideas. Three or four threads may be floating around in the writer's consciousness, and at a single moment in time, these ideas collide and produce a novel.

Anita Shreve

You're getting everyone's point of view at the same time, which, for me, is the perfect state for a novel: a cubist state, the cubist novel.

Michael Ondaatje

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.

Nicholas Mosley

I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

The novel was born with the Modern Era, which made man, to quote Heidegger, the "only real subject," the ground for everything. It is largely through the novel that man as an individual was established on the European scene. Away from the novel, in o...

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