Quotes of: Graphic-novels Keyword

I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

Emma Donoghue

It's a luxury to be able to tell a long form story. I love novels, and I love to have a long relationship with characters.

Jane Campion

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

E. O. Wilson

I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Fred Allen

The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.

Francois Truffaut

Misunderstanding and distrust—the predominant elements of a novel. Without them, everyone lives happily from beginning.

Carmen DeSousa

There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

C. S. Forester

If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall.

Cynthia Ozick

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

J. G. Ballard

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.

Edward St Aubyn

Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.

Ellie Ann

A memoir is always the most authentic telling of a situation, but a novel gets to different places.

Emma Donoghue

In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings.

Ernst Lubitsch

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

Bret Easton Ellis

From my novel, "A Twist in Travel:Fate," "What, you've never seen a grown man naked?!

Bobby Simonds

Watergate is an immensely complicated scandal with a cast of characters as varied as a Tolstoy novel.

Bob Woodward

I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.

Candace Bushnell

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.

Caroline B. Cooney

That seems to be the definition of 'novel' for me: a story that hasn't yet discovered a way to be brief.

George Saunders

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

Howard Gordon

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

Haruki Murakami