Top 82 Quotes About Graphic Novels: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Graphic Novels

#1. I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

#2. Simon's love life was complicated, but there was a pang, just for a moment, for this woman talking graphic novels with him.
Ah, well. Tessa Gray, foxy nerd, was probably dating someone already.

Cassandra Clare

#3. 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

#4. This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.

Gene Luen Yang

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

Charlaine Harris

#10. I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.

Virginia Madsen

#11. He has no interest in comics. He doesn't understand the difference between serious graphic novels and Saturday-morning cartoons with wide-eyed tweetybirds and floppy-limbed cats.

Emily St. John Mandel

#12. When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one.

Bryan Talbot

#13. Nothing's changed. When people read The Highwayman , they see it all in their heads. Their imagination is way more powerful than anything you can throw onto the screen. Look at the great graphic novels they've already butchered.

Glenn Benest

#14. The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

Janet Evanovich

#15. I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

Matthew Vaughn

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

Aisha Tyler

#19. Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne claire artwork and fluid storytelling makes The Rainbow Orchid easily one of the best graphic novels of the year.

Bryan Talbot

#20. 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

#21. I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.

Matthew Pearl

#22. 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

#23. I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

Gene Luen Yang

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.

Ty Simpkins

#29. 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

#30. Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

Darren Aronofsky

#31. I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

Malorie Blackman

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

Sharon Shinn

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

Denise Mina

#40. 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

#41. One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. In prose, you have a lot more room for digression, for very meaty kinds of dialogues. In graphic novels, you're writing haiku-length dialogue. Your job is to be efficient, to get out of the way of the art.

G. Willow Wilson

#46. 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

#47. Naughty children have to be protected. Even if it's just from themselves.

Marika McCoola

#48. You people with your quests annoy the pants off me.

Matthew Sturges

#49. Lost Cactus is a cornucopia of sights, sounds and inhabitants completely foreign to a little squirrel like Sammy, but attempting to set him straight will only complicate matters.

John Hopkins

#50. Will Cato's alien buddies come en masse and invade Earth? He's not sure but he'll try to keep humanity in the loop.

John Hopkins

#51. Broken things can be fixed and healed. Nothing is too difficult or too dirty to clean.

Marika McCoola

#52. Einstein was wrong! IM the speed of like CRACKING through shivery rainbows and GOD the sky whirls and withers like a melting RAINBOW!

Grant Morrison

#53. There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

Neil Gaiman

#54. I always knew it would come down to you and the big blue school boy. Planet's too big for the BOTH of you. When it all comes down, I want a piece of him. A small piece, will do? For OLD TIMES, sake, you know..it still hurts when its cold.

Frank Miller

#55. In this city, we've got a saying: once is coincidence, twice is a booking offense!

-Judge Dredd

John Wagner

#56. Ty is green but never with envy. Best of all, he's usually available to help move a heavy piece of furniture.

John Hopkins

#57. Yeah... they tell you to work from the inside, which is perhaps their greatest deception of all...

Josh Burggraf

#58. I've never been much for tears, anyway.

Ed Brubaker

#59. People should learn the names of things. They're more important when you know what they're called -- harder to forget. - Constantine

Jamie Delano

#60. My colleagues and I feel that independents like ElfQuest are nothing but sheep in wolves' clothing.- S. Lee

Robert Asprin

#61. Bentley is a good bee with a shaky sense of direction and an appetite for mayhem. Just don't call him a drone. He hates that.

John Hopkins

#62. To forgive or not to forgive ... are those my only choices?

Natsuki Takaya

#63. The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

Alan Moore

#64. I especially don't like the graphic violence against women and children often depicted in novels such as 'The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo' and others. I'm not sure if it's being done just to entertain or whether it really is necessary for the characters involved.

Ann Cleeves

#65. A gun is a liar's weapon

Frank Miller

#66. I'm back, boys and girls! back from the pink padded couch palace!

Scott McCloud

#67. mmmmen stink! bossss stink! hungry

Grant Morrison

#68. There are just two things you need to fix here: the interior and the exterior.

David Mazzucchelli

#69. And, they would still be alive today ... If they hadn't died, that is

Rotraut Susanne Berner

#70. The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

Neil Gaiman

#71. My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire.

Anne Belov

#72. You got a lifetime. No more. No less.

Neil Gaiman

#73. When you're running a bureaucracy the best way to safeguard your job is to make sure you're the only one who knows how the whole thing works. -Lord Julius

Dave Sim

#74. Funboy: Pal, something is seriously wrong with you.
The Crow: Atrocity has that effect on me.

James O'Barr

#75. Of course we're Criminals

Frank Miller

#76. 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