Books Quote by Travis Beacham

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

— Karin Slaughter

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

The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really define the…

— Eric Kripke

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

— Cynthia Ozick

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

“If a novel doesn't have well-developed three-dimensional principal characters, wouldn't it be a graphic novel without the graphics?”

— Michael Kroft

I think the graphic novel form works, in practice, a lot differently from watching a movie. You can put it down and pick it…

— Travis Beacham

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

— Manuel Puig

At times when you're adapting a book into a movie, you have to take certain creative liberties to bridge the gap between the two…

— Josh Hutcherson

Novelists should be free to write whatever they want, to let their imaginations roam as close to or as removed from reality as they…

— Sarah Weinman

I completely identify with finding freedom in boundaries. That's why I tend to have more freedom when I write nonfiction over fiction: because I'm…

— Leslie Jamison