Quotes of: Graphic-novels Keyword

When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.

Sidney Sheldon

I've ended up feeling fonder of 'The Paying Guests' than of any of my other novels.

Sarah Waters

A publisher many years ago asked if I'd like to write a novel for £50. And I said, 'Absolutely.'

Tom Stoppard

When I wrote The Onion Field, I realized that my first two novels were just practice.

Joseph Wambaugh

If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?

Jennifer Weiner

The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.

Leslie Fiedler

A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.

Lev Grossman

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.

Luanne Rice

The average author hawks their books at many events. They are vigilant promoters, waiting for a breakthrough. They do this, or else watch their novel wither away.

Michael J. Kannengieser

You use simple brushstrokes in a screenplay for things over which you would take much greater pains in a novel.

Richard Russo

The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all.

Rose Tremain

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

Rose Tremain

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

Rose Tremain

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

Michael Ondaatje

If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

Mordecai Richler

I was never interested in writing novelizations. I'm still not. Especially not for 'Star Wars.'

Matthew Stover

I am also an author. Please check out my novel, A Life Worth Dreaming About.

Nicholas Dettmann

It is as true for the writer as for the reader that any novel worth its ink should be an experience first and foremost - not an essay, not a statement, not an orderly rollout of themes and propositions.

David Wroblewski

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

Eudora Welty

Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

Lasse Hallstrom

One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.

Salman Rushdie