Baptism Quote by Paul Di Filippo

“After one postmodern doorstopper, you’ve read them all. Pynchon got there first, really… and it was good… but most of the others have been…

— A.D. Aliwat

“The writing of fiction is a dance between truth and invention”

— Barbara Kingsolver

There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of…

— Benjamin Wiker

In a single lifetime, roughly from 1865 to 1930, one finds the pioneering and patterning works of modern fantasy, science fiction, children's literature and…

— Michael Dirda

“Every novel is brand-new. It’s never been written before in the history of the world. At the same time, it’s merely the latest in…

— Thomas C. Foster

It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about.

— Steve Coogan

“Infinite Jest specifically: an endlessly, compulsively entertaining book that stingily withholds from readers the core pleasures of mainstream novelistic entertainment, among them a graspable…

— David Foster Wallace

Although it was published in 1977, "A Scanner Darkly's" mood is already postpunk.

— Mark Fisher

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

— Edmund Gosse

“I shall become as complete a stranger as the unknown drama sleeping in the limbo of a novelist’s imagination”

— Léon Bloy

I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book.…

— Leslie Fiedler

“Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a…

— Doris Lessing