Any Quote by John Ridley

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a…

— Marjane Satrapi

My fan fiction is canon.

— Dwayne McDuffie

There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic…

— John Ridley

Graphic novels and comic books offer an easy foothold into that world, and screenwriters and studio execs gravitate toward those, because I think they…

— Ryan Reynolds

I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good,…

— Chip Kidd

People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been…

— Terry Pratchett

I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying…

— Marjane Satrapi

“The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television.…

— George R.R. Martin

Novels usually evolve out of 'character.' Characters generate stories, and the shape of a novel is entirely imagined but should have an aesthetic coherence.

— Joyce Carol Oates

That's the fine balance of a fiction writer...to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some…

— Alan Lightman

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

— Jim Steranko

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

— Bel Powley