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I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
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[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years, for, like, ten years,… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
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