Quotes About Author

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

I started thinking about the endings of novels not because I think endings are so important, but because I think they're actually not as important as they're sometimes given credit for.

I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.

As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.

I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'

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

I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.

I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.

I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.

Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.

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

I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.

If you ask people if they enjoy crime novels, they'll say, 'Oh, my guilty pleasure is...' then name a really brilliant crime writer.

My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.

I've done a lot of books with Asian antecedents to them - some of my fantasy novels have been that way, and certainly in the 'Battletech' universe, there's a lot of Asian culture in that.

Novels are the means by which we can escape the moment we are imprisoned in, but at the same time, the roots of a novel are in the world in which it is written. We write, and we read, to understand the world we live in.

The fact is that most crime novels contain a good many punchlines. They are just rather darker than the ones you might hear in a comedy club.

I have a particular dislike for children's films. I'm way past the novelty aspect.

Maybe they're not 'books,' but 'Acme Novelty Library' and 'Eightball' are two comics I can't get enough of.

I was born in Belgium on 6 November 1932. I am married to Mira Nikomarow and have five children: Michele, Anne, Georges, from a first marriage with Esther Dujardin, and Sarah, Helene from a second one with Danielle Vindal.

Pac never had a license. He would mysteriously pop up with all these cars like, 'Get in. We're goin' to jail!' I ain't going nowhere with you.

Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a brutish social world.

I love football. I mean, I've gotten a chance to spend a couple of moments with Peyton Manning and have just deeply intense great football nuance conversation with him.