Books Quote by Terry Pratchett

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

I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call it an…

— Dave Gibbons

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

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

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate…

— Stephen Fry

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

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

— Bel Powley

I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic work that…

— Alan Moore

Graphic tees are vibes. And I think they're the basis of a lot of wardrobes, but that makes it challenging to distill what you're…

— Virgil Abloh

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

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

— Aisha Tyler