Quotes of: Graphic-novels Keyword

I don't like to read novels where the novelist tells me what to think about the situation and the characters. I prefer to discover for myself.

Frederick Wiseman

Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.

Chad Harbach

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

Camilla Lackberg

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

Conor Oberst

The way contemporary literature is emerging, soon we can expect "Item poetry" in novels.

Himmilicious

Embrace's infant warmers are a novel solution. The product has been designed specifically for resource-constrained settings.

Jane Chen

I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.

Donna Tartt

If you want to find out if someone is a true bookworm or not, give them a thousand page novel and see what happens.

E.A. Bucchianeri

Menulis cerita pendek dan novel bukanlah sesuatu hal yang dapat aku lakukan dengan mudah dan menyenangkan.

Erskine Caldwell

The Pacific Northwest, and particularly Whidbey Island, is extremely suited to be a location in a novel.

Elizabeth George

I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth.

Evan Hunter

The most exciting part of writing a novel is when the characters take control of the story

Brandt Legg

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

Caroline B. Cooney

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

Heinrich Mann

'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

Jessica Marais

A romance novel should leave readers joyous. My books all have happy endings.

Judith McNaught

I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway.

Joyce Carol Oates

'Dexter,' while the pilot shares moments with the novel that created the character of Dexter, they completely abandoned the book from that moment on.

Jim Rash

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

Jane Smiley

The novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers.

Jose Saramago

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

David Antin