Quotes of: Graphic-novels Keyword

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

Richard Powers

The novel is just fine: It's novelists who aren't doing so well.

Russell Smith

But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book. It is the book of America.

Robert Stone

I started my career as a novelist. 'Veronica Mars' was first imagined as a novel.

Rob Thomas

Not to disparage anything, but most vampire stories tend to be romance novels that are 'Twilight'-ish with metrosexual guys.

Mark Pellegrino

People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.

Brian Reynolds Myers

Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.

Flannery O'Connor

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

Joyce Cary

Write that novel. Start that business you've always wanted to. The ultimate high of life is the commitment to pursuing something.

Diana Nyad

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.

Anne McCaffrey

In 1980, I published my first novel, in the usual swirl of unjustified hope and justified anxiety.

Julian Barnes

I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.

Bruno Tonioli

Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history.

Nicolas Chamfort

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

Antony Beevor

The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.

Lev Grossman

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.

Jill McCorkle

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

Andrew O'Hagan

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

Harlan Coben

In my third novel there is an actual black hole that swallows everything you love.

Jonathan Lethem

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.

Franklin P. Adams

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

Francine Prose