Quotes of: Graphic-novels Keyword

For me, a novel is always the result of my attempt to impose myself on raw circumstances. It is a concrete form of lived experience.

Rachel Cusk

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.

Steven Bochco

Novels attempt to render human experience; that's really all they are. They are meant to convey empathy for the character.

Sue Monk Kidd

I love the Swedish people for their detective novels, their archipelago, their sense of humor, their carbonated vodka, and most especially, for their wonderful hospitality.

Michael Levitt

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

Johan Huizinga

There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.

Khaled Hosseini

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

Scarlett Thomas

I have no doubt that 'On the Road' is a Great American Novel. But I'm also certain my students will do fine without it.

Tony D'Souza

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.

Tom T. Hall

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Winston Churchill

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

W. Somerset Maugham

I have always argued, in a good novel, interesting things happen to interesting people.

Guy Gavriel Kay

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Jane Austen

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

Julianna Baggott

Recently, I haven't had too much time to read. But I love a good romance novel.

Jourdan Dunn

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.

Michael Morpurgo

It's not a good idea to put your wife into a novel; not your latest wife anyway.

Norman Mailer

Realistic novels simply pretend that the rules of their invented worlds are identical to the rules of actual life, but that's a ruse.

John Crowley

Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.

Jo Nesbo

'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.

Salman Rushdie

I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.

Cheryl Mendelson