Quotes of: Graphic-novels Keyword

Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.

Patrick White

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

Saul Bellow

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas.

Andrew Davies

I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

Alison Weir

Gentle With Them Thar Spurs'—a sequel to 'Riders of the Purple Sau-Sage.' Spurs was the feminist novel of its day…which was Tuesday." —Bats 2015

Fred Barnett

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

Frank Darabont

People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them.

Flannery O'Connor

I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'

Carlos Fuentes

The novel has always been the form that incorporates other forms. For me, it has always been the ultimate medium.

Chad Harbach

Working on a green screen set, yeah, it's almost like reading from a novel, taking those black words and creating a world around you.

Caterina Scorsone

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

Harold E. Varmus

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

Iain Banks

At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

Ira Glass

I feel a bigger sense of fulfillment when writing a novel, and short stories are more about instant gratification.

Jami Attenberg

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

Jane Austen

The best horror novels open up, "It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.

Justin Alcala

What does the novel do? It tells beautiful, shapely lies which enclose hard, exact truths.

Julian Barnes

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

John Cale

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

Johnny Cash

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

Elizabeth Bowen