Appropriate Quote by Dave Eggers

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

— Dave Eggers

If you have a good story idea, don't assume it must form a prose narrative. It may work better as a play, a screenplay…

— Hilary Mantel

Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style…

— Charles Portis

I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.

— Tennessee Williams

A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down…

— Richard K. Morgan

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

— Ted Rall

As a matter of writing philosophy, if there is one, I try not to ever plot a story. I try to write it from…

— Anonymous

One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what…

— Martin Filler

While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's…

— Nicholas Sparks

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

— Maurice Sendak

I believe that the writer should tell a story. I believe in plot. I believe in creating characters and suspense.

— Ernest Gaines

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

— Ted Rall