Novelists Quotes - Page 15

I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French.

A novelist is an elephant, but an elephant who must pretend to forget.

The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.

The utmost the American novelist can hope for, if he hopes at all to see his work included in the literature of his time, is that it may eventually be found to be along in the direction of the growing tip of collective consciousness. Preeminently the novelist's gift is that of access to the collective mind.

To capture the human cost of fallen empire with all its horror and absurdity, Sheets offers the right combination: the political insight of a top reporter and the power of a novelist.

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.

I'm probably the only novelist who has ever written about political fugitives who actually knew a lot about them, had contact with them, and had a realistic notion of how they survived.

Some of what we read in classical literature is not relative to our condition, but then many women novelists and poets have turned it upside down and told the stories from the other point of view.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did, that a novel isn't simply a vehicle for private expression, but that it also exists for social examination. I firmly believe this.

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

Curiosity is the prime requisite of the novelist.

Everyone assumes that novelists are smarter and more interesting. They're generally smarter and more interesting, but they're often very short. So it kind of cancels all the smart and interesting stuff out.

One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

I like novelists who can create other interesting worlds.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

As a novelist, I'm endlessly fascinated by human behavior and interactions.

Is any novelist going to recognize the moment when he or she has nothing more to say? It is a brave thing to admit. And since as a professional writer you are full of anxiety anyway, you could easily misread the signs.

He looks like a man.' 'How descriptive,' Susan said in a droll tone. 'Remind me never to advise you to seek work as a novelist.

I think it's restrictive to typecast myself as a novelist because I enjoy other forms of expression. I love literature and I love cinema.