Quotes About Expression

Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.

It feels like when novelists say they find their characters are doing things they never thought they'd do, the material comes alive, and that's how I feel making music.

Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists.

It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.

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

It took me six novels before I felt confident of my voice as a writer.

All of my novels are democracies.

I write novels and other things.

In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.

Writing novels is the most exciting.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do.

My novels are all ideas.

As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling.

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.

I love novels, but I'm not a novelist. I'm just a dramatist, which means I write lines for actors. That's all I have ever wanted to do.

I love to write. I write everything across the board - kids' stories and novels and scripts. I actually would like to give that a go; I'd like to try to be a writer.

In modern novels, there is no one I want to copy. My style 'is a poor thing, but it is my own.'

I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.

I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.

I must say, it was a lot easier writing novels than I thought it would be. I think it's because I'm a novelist at heart, and it took me a while to figure that out.