Martin Filler Quotes

I love written books and novels, but I really love graphic novels and comic books!

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

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

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitation on comics? You can use any word in the dictionary. You can put them in any order you want to. You can use a vast variety of illustrating styles. People could do all sorts of things.

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

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

I started out as a novelist, and I think novels have gotten a little stiff, a little repetitive, and the energy in comics was much more appealing.

Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.

I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it.

I believe that comics are entirely for entertainment.

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.

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.

When I'm creating characters, I definitely think of theme songs. Writing for me is very visual, so I sometimes think of it in terms of a movie with a soundtrack, and try to transfer that to words.

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!

For English assignments I was constantly coming up with these strange adventure stories... But I actually wanted to be an artist, or maybe work in the comic book industry.

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.

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

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.