“Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In this wilderness cries the voice of Patrick White, Australian extraordinary, who has quite other, more austere and indeed prophetic ambitions. (...) (H)is failures are certainly the equivalent, and perhaps the measure, of other men's success.” MenVoiceWhiteNumbersNovelModernCryAmbitionStandardsExtraordinaryWildernessAustralianPropheticDo It YourselfSmall NumbersModern Novel Author:David Pryce-Jones
“One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.” WayWantProblemRealityUnderstandingNovelAmbitionOne WayComicAmbitiousNo ProblemGraphicEscapismGraphic NovelsEscape Reality Author:Art Spiegelman
“Initially I only decided to try and write a novel because I wasn't getting enough screenwriting work. It wasn't a long-held ambition, and certainly the idea came first.” WritingTryingFirstsLongIdeasEnoughNovelAmbitionDecidedWorking ItScreenwriting Book:The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel Source: The Tenderness of Wolves: A Novel