Books Quote by Duane Swierczynski Download Open image “Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.” — Duane Swierczynski ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Comic Marathon Novel Scripts Sprint
My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels. — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
I started out as a novelist, and I think novels have gotten a little stiff, a little repetitive, and the energy in comics was… — Tom King Copy Share Image
Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it… — Sergio Aragones Copy Share Image
I used to publish these stories in 32-page comics, and I would either do short stories or break the long ones up into chunks… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium. — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel. — Cliff Chiang Copy Share Image
Comic books are what novels used to be - an accessible, vernacular form with mass appeal - and if the highbrows are right, they're… — Charles McGrath Copy Share Image
A novel is 400 pages; it's an endurance race. There's no artist, so I have to describe everything. It's all prose. Whereas with comics,… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
People who know and read comics know that there's a huge diversity amongst the types of stories. Nobody ever goes 'how many more of… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
Comics are expensive. Don’t make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move the story… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
I won't read a new graphic comic novel until the writer has completed the entire series. I got burned a few times when I… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
The world will run you down and slam a tire over your exploding skull and not even wonder what it had just hit — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice… — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
“The Other Him gave a creepy look that bordered on pity. Oh, you poor baby. Which was surreel. Was that what Hradie looked like… — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
Comic scripts are full-on collaborations, not only with your artist, but your editors and colorists and letterers and PR folks, etc. Writing comics reminds… — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
With novels, you're sitting at a desk, alone, going slightly crazy, for anywhere from six months to a year with zero feedback. — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
Writing novels reminds me of being an awkward 15-year-old typing on a Commodore 64 in his bedroom, trying to be the next Stephen King. — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
The noir universe hates do-gooders so it tries to pound them and punish them. — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
I love seeing guys on the worst possible day and watching them scramble. — Duane Swierczynski Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
