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You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically. -- Aisha Tyler
I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel. -- Ted Rall
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
One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.' -- Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
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
I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels. -- Charlaine Harris
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling. -- Ted Rall
I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend. -- Michael McMillian
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books. -- Matthew Vaughn
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 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
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
When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that. -- Joel Silver
A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely. -- Richard K. Morgan
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'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are for kids, and graphic novels are for adults. But you can't really separate the two. -- Dave Pirner
The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers. -- Walter Hill
Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal. -- Francoise Mouly
When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink. -- Molly Crabapple
I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel. -- Walter Hill
Sqwaak!" from Fletcher, the environmental crime fighting parrot in The Big Belch graphic novel by Kay Wood. -- Kay Wood
I lose patience with long stories. I get people who go, "Crumb, do some long stories, do a graphic novel." Novel-schmovel. -- Robert Crumb
As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation. -- Robin Furth
I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy. -- Michael Easton
In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading. -- Gene Luen Yang
I also felt The Kite Runner was a story that would lend itself well to a visual retelling in a graphic novel. -- Khaled Hosseini
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 would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre. -- Matthea Harvey
You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium. -- Adrian Tomine
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
I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them. -- Terry Pratchett
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics. -- Alan Moore
You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic books are still incredibly stupid. -- Bill Watterson
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
For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood. -- Gene Luen Yang
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
Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading. -- Jon Scieszka
Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading. -- Jon Scieszka
Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi. -- Anurag Kashyap
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
Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.' -- Martin Filler
I first became an Alan Moore fan in Covent Garden on a Saturday afternoon in 1987, when I bought a copy of 'Watchmen,' his graphic novel about ageing superheroes and nuclear apocalypse. -- Susanna Clarke
The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same. -- Marjane Satrapi
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
In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag. -- Alan Moore
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
People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and that disappears. -- 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 proper novel and it also is the complete story. -- Dave Gibbons
To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way. -- Dave Eggers
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 way of narrating - it's just a media type. -- Marjane Satrapi
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
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
The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book. But there is great source material for those kinds of films. -- Ryan Reynolds
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
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
One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality. -- Art Spiegelman
I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil. I've got many ideas that are still to be drawn out, but the couple collaborations in development are with other actor/writers for graphic novel/comic that could potentially become a film project. -- Jade Hassoune
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
That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that's respectable for adults to read. -- Adrian Tomine
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
Luther' is absolutely a monster-of-the-week show. Although it's post-watershed and is rendered in intense graphic novel-style images, it's inspiration is not that different from 'Doctor Who' as in both cases you've got a trickster figure who fights the monster of the week and is eventually successful. -- Neil Cross
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 character's voice and two, it's a way easier way to convey what the character's thinking by actually laying out what he's thinking. -- Eric Kripke
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
I started on the original comics from Stan Lee and all the artists and storytellers did from there, and I got to the graphic novel that Chris Clairmont did, which is the one Stryker comes from - 'God Loves, Man Kills', which is a brilliant story. -- Josh Helman
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
I started on the original comics from Stan Lee and all the artists and storytellers did from there, and I got to the graphic novel that Chris Clairmont did, which is the one Stryker comes from - God Loves, Man Kills, which is a brilliant story. -- Josh Helman
I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call it an album, which to me sounds, it's got more much of a connotation of a kind of a music single and an album collection. -- Dave Gibbons
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
You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing. But you plug away at it and trust in the story you want to tell. It's a marathon, but the finished product is really satisfying. -- Vera Brosgol
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
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
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
I'm a graphic-novel guy. I can't handle the wait for monthly or bi-monthly comics; I need the story finished so I can buy the whole thing. -- Chris Wooding
Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen. -- Dustin Clare
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 written anywhere. -- Terry Pratchett
Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine. -- Jade Hassoune

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