Quotes of: Graphic-novels Keyword

Men are stupid and ignorant. That is why they suffer. Instead of thinking, they believe all that they are told, all that they are taught. They choose their lords and masters without judging them, with a fatal taste for slavery.

Fear: A Novel of World War I

It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.

Flotsam: A Novel of World War II

What are books but tangible dreams? What is reading if it is not dreaming? The best books cause us to dream; the rest are not worth reading.

The Fan-Maker's Inquisition: A Novel of the Marquis de Sade

The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smells of what's happening in the story. They don't want approximations, they don't want a report, they want to experience the story's reality.

Flogging the Quill: Crafting a Novel that Sells

-to judge us all through the machine of the Commandant's monstrous fictions! As though they were the truth! As though history & the written word were friends, rather than adversaries!

Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours.

How to Read Novels Like a Professor: A Jaunty Exploration of the World's Favorite Literary Form

I think 'Gatsby' is hobbled, in part, by its status as a Great American Novel. People kind of roll their eyes before they've even opened it, treat it with a 'been there, done that' attitude. I know I did. It took me years to re-open the novel and see...

Susan Choi

By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945 was the dawn of a new golden age of the American Novel, like the Hemingway-Dos Passos-Fitzgerald era after World War I.

Tom Wolfe

I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a...

Orhan Pamuk

Al día de hoy, al comprender la habilidad del mundo para presionarme hasta que haga lo que no hago, he madurado. Con qué actitud desempeño mi papel, eso depende únicamente de mi.

Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette

This was a cruel world she had been born into, all pink and squirming. She'd never wanted to see reality. Now, like the cold, it was impossible to ignore.

The Adventures of a South Pole Pig: A novel of snow and courage

We...believe that art is religious, because it is one of man's highest aspirations. There is no such thing as pagan art, only good and bad art.

The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo

In our not-yet-acknowledged secret garden lie the seeds of some of our best not-yet-written stories

How to Grow a Novel: The Most Common Mistakes Writers Make and How to Overcome Them

It isn’t fair, but maybe that’s the whole point. Fairness has no part in real life, and she took that lesson away from the Hotel Angeline with her.

Hotel Angeline: A Novel in 36 Voices

I wonder whether there is such a thing as a sense of individuality. Is it all a facade, covering a deep need to belong? Are we simply pack animals desperately trying to pretend we are not?

I, The Divine: A Novel in First Chapters

For real men serve their country with random acts of kindness, not vicious acts of violence. And real soldiers have one duty, and one duty only; they have a duty to mutiny!

'Involution & Evolution': A rhyming anti-war novel

Oh! And they read English novels! David! Did you ever look into an English novel? Well, do not trouble yourself. It is nothing but a lot of nonsense about girls with fanciful names getting married.

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell

I suppose that having lost true love once, I never wanted to replace it with a lukewarm approximation that would only serve to make me remember it forever.

The Sister: A Novel of Emily Dickinson

I ask Laurie if it's possible to get trained fish. Lindsay says this is how we know I've never produced a movie.

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Can he love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn - to be on fire, like Juliet or Guinevere or Eloise...

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

Got up this morning and could not find my glasses. Finally had to seek assistance. Kate [Winslet] found them inside a flower arrangement.

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film