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The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels. -- Janet Evanovich
Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused. -- Darren Aronofsky
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. -- Matthew Vaughn
Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out. -- Anthony Bourdain
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever. -- Jon Scieszka
Oh, I'm nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I'm nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I'm working on right now. It's a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it's going to be fun. -- Billy Campbell
My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books. -- Jon Scieszka
Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful. -- J. Michael Straczynski
I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel. -- Ted Rall
I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder. -- Gene Luen Yang
I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form. -- Denise Mina
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling. -- Ted Rall
Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked. -- Michelle MacLaren
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel. -- Ted Rall
I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre. -- Matthea Harvey
I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world. -- Matthea Harvey
I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger. -- Kari Wahlgren
The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a legitimately separate genre. -- Doug TenNapel
I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more. -- Cobie Smulders
Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words. -- Peter Schjeldahl
When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other. -- Etgar Keret
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 the things I'm reading about look like. -- Martin Filler
There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and that's what makes them in some ways good fans. -- John Ridley
People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of Watchmen as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form. -- Dave Gibbons
People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form. -- Dave Gibbons
I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way. -- John Ridley
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 and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form. -- Stephen Fry
I knew that we'd have a big following because the graphic novel [ The Walking Dead] is so popular, and I knew that with Frank Darabont and Gale Ann Hurd at the helm that we were doing something very special. -- Laurie Holden
I never wanted to make a graphic novel. As soon as you become a 'writer,' you have to be intelligent all the time... I like the fact that I have the right once in a while to say silly things. -- Marjane Satrapi
There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind. -- John Ridley
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 comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it. -- Marjane Satrapi
Seriously, you know - I love to write. I enjoy the process; I enjoy the different processes, because writing for film and television and graphic novels is all very different. So I've never had the feeling of, 'Oh, you have to do this one thing.' -- John Ridley
Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both. -- Marjane Satrapi
Cinema isn't just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It's specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level, superheroes, whether in print or on film, serve the same function for their audience as Golden Age movie stars did for theirs: they create glamour. -- Virginia Postrel
In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I'm rewriting. If I'm working with a co-writer, they'll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts. -- James Patterson
When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer. -- Seth
Playing Destroyo, who was sort of a Silence Of The Lambs type character, I'd say I was wearing about 50 pounds of rubber and foam rubber and makeup. But I had no idea who The Tick was. I'm not a big graphic-novel guy. I don't even know if The Tick was a graphic novel! -- Kurt Fuller
Julio's Day is a story of one man's life, but it's a great more than that as well. It's the story of the life of a century, also told as if a day. Beginning with Julio's birth in 1900 and ending with his death in 2000, the graphic novel touches on most of the major events that shaped the 20th century. -- Brian Evenson
I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted. -- Denise Mina
The graphic novel? I love comics and so, yes. I don't think we talked about that. We weren't influenced necessarily by graphic novels but we certainly, once the screenplay was done, we talked about the idea that you could continue, you could tell back story, you could do things in sort of a graphic novel world just because we kind of like that world. -- Todd Farmer
I felt there was a certain amount of violence in the graphic and that it could still be cheated on screen so you could still have a hard PG-13 and open up your audience. Anybody can read the graphic novel. If you're 14, you can go out and buy it, and I felt that if you're 14 you should be able to see this movie [The Loosers]. -- Sylvain White
With comics, you don't have to worry so much about budgetary constraints. In film and television, however fanciful you want to be, someone can come up to you and go, 'Okay, this is going to cost X amount of dollars, and we only have so many days to film this.' With graphic novels, you can have that alien invasion you've always wanted to see. -- John Ridley
You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically. -- Aisha Tyler
One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.' -- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
I read graphic novels, here and there, but I'm not a comic book guy, as much. -- Zachary Levi
I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels. -- Charlaine Harris
My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels... -- Dav Pilkey
When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one. -- Bryan Talbot
I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side. -- Gene Luen Yang
I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic. -- Virginia Madsen
I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well. -- Malorie Blackman
I'm hoping to develop a lot of graphic novels and television shows and films and animation. I've got my hands in a lot of different things! -- Michael B. Jordan
I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics. -- Bruce Willis
I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that. -- Adrian Tomine
I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French. -- Matthea Harvey
It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways. -- Lynne Rae Perkins
Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores. -- Jim Steranko

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