Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
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Related I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be int... MARJANE SATRAPI I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel. TED RALL I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourge... MARJANE SATRAPI The graphic novel is much more violent. DAVID CRONENBERG When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytell... TED RALL Sonora Pass is not a graphic novel for light weights Dude JAIME OLMOS Non è la strada che è difficile, è la difficoltà che è la strada". MANU LARCENET I want to get to know this other me, but I don't know her well enough yet to be her all the time LAURA LEE GULLEDGE Live a LOT to get better material. Let yourself feel everything LAURA LEE GULLEDGE There are things we can't change and we just have to accept that. And maybe that's some kind of grac... BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY Quante volte mi sono trovato su un trampolino con sotto il mare azzurro, e non mi sono tuffato LORENZO MATTOTTI Our fine Governor called me here to ask me to talk to you--said you didn't seem too happy here. He k... ROBERT KIRKMAN I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels.... DAVE PIRNER To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that... DAVE EGGERS There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the... NEIL GAIMAN I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK. RAINBOW ROWELL If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel. TED RALL You have to be brave before you can be good. BRIAN K. VAUGHAN Celia and I are hoping for a new start in a our thus far tortuous path to Nirvana JAIME OLMOS Me? I like wearing a condom. It means I'm having sex. I already spend most of my time NOT wearing on... DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples... MARJANE SATRAPI Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n... BRET ELLIS Lunar Park came out of wanting to write a Stephen King novel. In 1989, I wanted to write two genre n... BRET EASTON ELLIS There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in ... JOHN RIDLEY I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it ... LINDA BARRY You retain the Ki. Whether or not you become a warrior is for you to discover. RICHARD FINNEY I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form. DENISE MINA People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' ... DAVE GIBBONS 'Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is b... JON SCIESZKA In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do wa... ALAN MOORE Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to... MARTIN FILLER You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it... BILL WATTERSON I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas... DAVE GIBBONS I had some friends here from North Carolina who'd never seen a homer, so I gave them a couple. CATFISH HUNTER The novel has always been a contradictory form. Here is a long form narrative mainly read originally... MATTHEW PEARL Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and ... NEIL GAIMAN ...She wasn't anyone special. She wasn't that brave, that clever or that strong. She was just somebo... ALAN MOORE I, the great and powerful D.S. will create a harem for all the women in the world!!!! For a woman, n... KAZUSHI HAGIWARA I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - bu... YURI LOWENTHAL Like 'Metro' and 'Motor,' 'Troublemaker' is written in first person. The onl... JANET EVANOVICH I noticed that this defense attorney is a very, very intelligent man, and he's very cool and he&... TOMMY BOND I love graphic design. I love working with design, and I love storytelling, so I've been working... COLLEEN HASKELL I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. I... FRANCES MAYES One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for... MARTIN FILLER Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader.... EDWARD ST AUBYN I couldn't ever write a straight crime novel: there'd be an intrusion of weirdness at some p... ALASTAIR REYNOLDS The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to... G. WILLOW WILSON My art teacher told me I'd be suited to graphic design, but I just couldn't, because it was ... ALEXA CHUNG The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story b... DOUG TENNAPEL I loved Stephen Wright, and I loved Mitch Hedberg, but they seemed like geniuses you could never emu... ANTHONY JESELNIK As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words. JOHN LANGDON Imagination is just what others use to get things they can't understand into their heads. Rarely –... BRIAN AZZARELLO As soon as I finished 'The Finkler Question,' I was in despair. I'd changed my English p... HOWARD JACOBSON Graphic Design for its own sake will never happen, because the concept cancels itself out — a post... CHIP KIDD People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case... ANTHONY POWELL I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I'm becoming more of a novelist as I get older. The novel just seems the truer form. There's... ETHAN CANIN Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it... DAVID THEWLIS I saw people dying at the convention center, I saw people already dead, and there was nothing not... GREGORY HENDERSON I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder. GENE LUEN YANG For me, nudity and strong language have never been huge loadbearing elements of how I like to tell a... BRYAN FULLER I've redone plays of mine and made changes. A play is a living thing, and I'd never say I wo... HORTON FOOTE The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a ro... BOB COLACELLO I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and '... COBIE SMULDERS My background is sociology. Combined with my graphic approach, if I could do some film projects, I t... DAVID CARSON I feel like I've got a novel in me somewhere, but that's something... I was just talking to ... COREY TAYLOR The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.' BARTLETT SHER I'm looking for a woman with the body of Kelly Brook and the mind of Stephen Fry. STEPHEN MERCHANT I often think of the novel as a form that celebrates social groups, and the short story being a form... ANTONYA NELSON Some people are using this not to copy the picture, but as a starting point when talking to a graphi... JOHN TREACY I would never, ever use a novel to do thinly disguised political information dissemination. For me, ... ARUNDHATI ROY I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it t... ERNEST GAINES I weave the company into what we laughingly call 'Jack's novel.' I write this novel for ... JACK O'BRIEN If I had a plot that was all set in advance, why would I want go through the agony of writing the no... CHAIM POTOK Of course, I'd like to earn Jonathan Ross's money, but I don't have sleepless nights won... MARIELLA FROSTRUP When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually ... ALEXI ZENTNER Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime... STEPHEN FRY Ignorance breeds fear and hatred. KRISTIN CAST I like things to be quite poppy, quite graphic -- it's quite a London sensibility. I'm not looking f... LUELLA BARTLEY I'm an artist, so I love the graphic design of Instagram. PIERCE BROSNAN Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because... JOHN RIDLEY Like many beginning writers, I had to make the difficult leap from short stories to learning the cra... JOHN DALTON I had a writing professor at Brandeis who told me I'd never make it - and when I sold my first n... CAROLINE LEAVITT I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books... MATTHEW VAUGHN I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how d... JENNY OFFILL A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times b... G.K. CHESTERTON Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it... DAVID THEWLIS I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life. TIM ALLEN I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is... KIM YOUNG-HA Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form. KARIN SLAUGHTER I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonat... CANDICE ACCOLA For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in th... NEIL GAIMAN Alice: I didn't know that cheshire cats grinned. In fact, I didn't know that cats could grin. <... ROD ESPINOSA We are told to remember the idea and not the man. Because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can b... ALAN MOORE In films of terror, it's often not about being graphic. Or if there is a graphic image, it's... 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