Graphic novels Quotes · Page 2

I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel.

— Khaled Hosseini

I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I…

— Cobie Smulders

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

— Gene Luen Yang

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

— Charlaine Harris

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

— Matthew Vaughn

Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small…

— Dustin Clare

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

— Karin Slaughter

I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy.

— Michael Easton

Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art…

— Orlando Jones

I think with something like 'Watchmen' you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent…

— Dave Gibbons

There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and…

— John Ridley

Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up…

— Jim Steranko

I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham…

— Matthea Harvey

I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics…

— Terry Pratchett

The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really…

— Eric Kripke

To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be…

— Dave Eggers

Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne…

— Bryan Talbot

We [Rodriguez and Frank Miller] wanted to take the movies and turn them into a graphic novel, so that people wouldn't even…

— Robert Rodriguez

Just look at the cinema itself: It's comprised of lots of movies about graphic novels, and if you're not 20 years old…

— Danny Glover

Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That's been a huge breakthrough,…

— Michael Uslan

With comics, you don't have to worry so much about budgetary constraints. In film and television, however fanciful you want to be,…

— John Ridley

The graphic novel? I love comics and so, yes. I don't think we talked about that. We weren't influenced necessarily by graphic…

— Todd Farmer

I felt there was a certain amount of violence in the graphic and that it could still be cheated on screen so…

— Sylvain White

Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have…

— Colum McCann

I love written books and novels, but I really love graphic novels and comic books!

— Eiza Gonzalez

The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.

— Walter Hill

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

— Denise Mina

I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a…

— Michael B. Jordan

You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some…

— Adrian Tomine

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

— Bel Powley

When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.

— Bryan Talbot

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them…

— Alan Moore

I love movies, but I would love to write as many graphic novels as people would read from me.

— Travis Beacham

I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the…

— Matthea Harvey

“My colleagues and I feel that independents like ElfQuest are nothing but sheep in wolves' clothing."- S. Lee”

— Robert Lynn Asprin

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

— Michelle MacLaren

“Strength is not just about brawn, but also brain. I know because I've had to use brute strength and willpower to live…

— Kim Dong Hwa

If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

— Ted Rall

“There are just two things you need to fix here: the interior and the exterior.”

— David Mazzucchelli

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.

— Virginia Madsen