Quotes About Creativity

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

Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.

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

When I do a novel, I don't really use the script, I use the book; when I did Apocalypse Now, I used Heart of Darkness. Novels usually have so much rich material.

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

In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.

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

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

All of my novels are democracies.

I knew I wanted to write novels, but I could not finish what I started. The closer I got, the more ways I'd find to screw it up.

Grand Central really didn't want me doing anything under my own name but the 'Kitty' novels.

What I like about writing novels is that I'm in my own world for nine months.

Fiction novels, that's my game.

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore.

I almost always use first person voice in my novels. It has its limitations, but it gives a sense of immediacy that's hard to create with an anonymous, all-seeing narrator.

You hear about people who write 15 to 20 novels. How do they do it? You just gotta do it.

While writing 'Bhavesh,' I pretty much chewed up every single graphic novel I could get my hands on, so all the way from the entire 'Batman' series, Frank Miller's 'Batman,' Ed Brubaker's 'Batman,' Scott Snyder's 'Batman,' all the way through 'Daredevil' to '100 Bullets,' through so many other graphic novels.

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.

I write novels and other things.

I spend about a year between novels.

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

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.

After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.