Books Quote by Francine du Plessix Gray

Fiction is a branch of neurology

— J. G. Ballard

There is no denying that we are suffering from a collective neurosis and the novel which does not face this is not a novel…

— Anais Nin

It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale of American…

— Michael Korda

“Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic, the erotic and the tommy-rotic.”

— W. Giese

Evidently, there are many great American writers. But sometimes it can feel as though American fiction is dominated by relatively linear narrative form, with…

— Katie Kitamura

First of all, the novel should be a critique of the novels that have come before it in a language that broadens the audience…

— Kiese Laymon

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

— Robert Hughes

The United States, democratic and various though it is, is not an easy country for a fiction-writer to enter: the slot between the fantastic…

— John Updike

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

— Anonymous

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be…

— Natalie Goldberg

“[American Psycho] is ”throughout numbingly boring, and for much of the time deeply and extremely disgusting. Not interesting-disgusting, but disgusting-disgusting: sickening, cheaply sensationalist, pointless…

— Andrew Motion

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in…

— John Green