Books Quote by William Peter Blatty

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

— Stewart Stafford

“Critics all have this idea that authors inhabit another dimensional realm, right up to their first smack in the mouth - which feels to…

— Don Paterson

“If being a writer doesn't make you humble, nothing else will." ~ Verge Le Noir”

— Verge LeNoir

“There seems a general wish of decrying the capacity and undervaluing the labor of the novelist, and of slighting performances which have only genius,…

— Jane Austen

“A writer will seal his own coffin, And the interests of readers will soften, If the author insists On the usual twists, And he…

— Mark Grenier

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting…

— Tom McDonough

“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 once loved a guy who fashioned himself as some sort of gothic paradox. He liked to slice his arms in small cuts and…

— Brenda S. Tolian

“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

“Stevenson's story strips away all the distancing devices of the traditional Gothic, locating the horror of atavistic returns in central London, in the present…

— Robert Mighall

“Achtung, motherfuckers. And good afternoon. I'm James Ellroy; the death dog with the hog log, the white knight of the far right, and the…

— James Ellroy