Quotes of: Graphic-novels Keyword

The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.

E. M. Forster

My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

Ben Elton

In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.

Buchi Emecheta

People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.

Barbara Kingsolver

I think the main thing to remember when writing a novel is to stay true to the characters.

Cassandra Clare

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

George R. R. Martin

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

George Orwell

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

George Stephen

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Harlan Coben

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

Helen Dunmore

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

Joseph O'Neill

I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.

J. K. Rowling

Love a girl and she will give you a story to tell, Love a woman and she will give you a novel to pen...

Dinesh Kumar Biran

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.

Daniel Clowes

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

Daniel Craig

Richard Wright, a Mississippi-born negro, has written a blinding and corrosive study in hate. It is a novel entitled "Native Son".

David L. Cohn

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.

David Frum

Many athletes are seeking new and novel ways of pushing their limits, and the challenge of running back-to-back races is certainly one way to test the boundaries.

Dean Karnazes

I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline.

Donna Leon

You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel.

James M. Cain

I believe that, in any novel of mine, the principal objective is the construction of the whole.

John Irving