Our fiction is not merely in flight from the physical data…

“In Gothic fiction, characters must contend with the dead, with active hauntings or with hallucinations of hauntings, as well as whatever other trying circumstances…

— Brenda Walker

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

— Roddy Doyle

“To me, Gothic fiction is the literary representation of the stormy gloom of the British Isles.”

— Stewart Stafford

“At its heart, Gothic Fiction is the introvert's "Hero's Journey" where heroes and heroines must navigate the uncharted territory of the mind in order…

— Barrymore Tebbs

“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize…

— Mark Twain

Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of…

— H. L. Mencken

What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of…

— James Wolcott

“Don Raimondo tells me what he can’t tell them. “The emptiness on the surface of a wall left by a sold bookshelf is the…

— Erri DeLuca

Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example,…

— Glenn Ligon

I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a…

— Sherman Alexie

It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't…

— Anatole Broyard

Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as…

— Stuart Dybek

Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably…

— Raquel Cepeda

“I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of reality once more, and stagger…

— John Fante

American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison … Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be…

— James Branch Cabell