I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.

Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

My novels are certainly more exciting than my own life.

'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.

All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.

I don't really consider any of my novels 'crime' novels.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

This novel is fiction, except for the parts that aren't.

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.

For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

I don't see novels ending with any real sense of closure.

There's a sense in all my novels that nothing is certain.

I sold my very first novel when I was 24 or 25 years old.

Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.

All my novels are rooted in their time and in their place.

What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?

A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.

for me the novel is a social vehicle, it reflects society.

Novels are . . . an unsurpassed form to understand people.

Travelling is like a novel: it's what happens that counts.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.

A good novel is worth more than the best scientific study.

A short story is one idea; a novel is a whole soup of them.

I've started many novels, and they all ended on page seven.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

I can write for a long time on one novel and not get tired.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.

I know they are naught things, but I devour novels.” (p. 57).

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

The novel is a game or joke shared between author and reader.

'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.

If I wanted to make money I would have written another novel.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

Mostly what happens in the novels never happened in real life.

The novel is dead. Long live the antinovel, built from scraps.

I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

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

The biggest downside to being a novelist is writing the novel.

I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.

The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.

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