Books Quote by Jaime Olmos

“It is a novel constructed like a poem, where each character is only exceptional because if the hyperbolic manner in which he represents generality.”

— Victor Hugo

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off.

— Peter Straub

I wrote a comedy, which hopefully [Rick director] Curtiss Clayton will bring to the screen, that I thought was the antithesis of all my…

— Daniel Handler

“Art is not a horse race. Literature is not the Olympics. The hell with The Great American Novel. We have all the great novels…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Writing a balanced, beautiful novel, where plot and character and setting and pacing and narrative structure and imagery and, above all, story work in…

— Nicola Griffith

If any art form can accommodate contemporary culture, it's the novel. It's so malleable - it can incorporate essays, poetry, film. Maybe the challenge…

— Don DeLillo

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

— Anonymous

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

— Robert Hughes

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art.

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Ted Rall

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

— Dave Gibbons

“Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.”

— Aljean Harmetz