Gothic Novel Quotes

#1. The spirit of Jane Eyre looms over Once Upon a Day. Lisa Tucker keeps the plot of this gothic novel bubbling with tons of juicy family secrets.

Stewart O'Nan

#2. The sublime signals the limits of rationality - the 'sleep' of reason - and was best communicated by obscurity. So in the same spirit as the recipes 'to make a romance', 'seven types of obscurity' could be proposed for a Gothic novel:

Nick Groom

#3. The form of the Gothic novel also implicitly contested the claims of Realism to reflect the world directly by showing how artificial its structure was.

Michael Richardson

#4. An elliptical machine does not excite me as much as a Gothic novel and a chicken chimichanga.

Leah Marie Brown

#5. I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books that essentially say, 'Your husband is trying to kill you'?

Margaret Atwood

#6. Good Lord. His appearance was nearly a caricature of the dark and brooding hero from every gothic novel.

Tarun Shanker

#7. Football is a religion and Saturday is the holy day of obligation.

Bob Ufer

#8. For someone's character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.

Henry Cloud

#9. Adrianne Harun's dark, mysterious novel is by turns Gothic and grittily realistic, astute and poetic in its evocation of evil everywhere.

Andrea Barrett

#10. I'd love for readers to read what books are about so that if they are expecting happy endings in dark horror novels, they won't reach for the Vallium or something worse!

Carole Gill

#11. God blesses us more so that we can be more of a blessing to others.

Mark Batterson

#12. There is no celebrity quite as powerful as the local, homegrown celebrity.

Tony Wilson

#13. Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.

Christopher Fowler

#14. Color can be measured in the depth of ones' skin, however character is measured by the content of ones' heart.

Mark W. Boyer

#15. I won't talk to you about my family and you won't talk to me about yours. Family talk is either boring or self-pitying. Or it's Gothic, like a Faulkner novel. Who needs to talk about it? It's enough to live it.

Chaim Potok

#16. Music is so strong, so powerful, and such an amazing tool and bands that don't take that into account and feel that they are not responsible for their message is a bunch of baloney.

Michael Sweet

#17. The book's always better than the movie.

Richelle Mead

#18. Win until your opponents are sick and tired of your winning.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#19. The basis of the gothic are secrets that are kept combined with appearances that deceive.

Stephen King

#20. When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents became a prison. We sought excitement and adventure. We sought anything but the sinless, pure, and average of the faux idyllic.

Scott Thompson

#21. A flirtatious soul misses the point of intimate trust relations.

T.F. Hodge

#22. The word 'snooze fest' comes to mind when talking about Hopkins' fighting style, that's what a lot of people say. He's a boring fighter.

Tavoris Cloud

#23. I hate with a vengeance having to go anywhere near Ronald McFucking Donald with his bright red scary hair, yellow fucktard suit, pasty white powdery skin, and obscenely high eyebrows. How the hell he doesn't bother every person on this planet mystifies me.

K.M. Golland

#24. I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

David Powers

#25. All cats are gray in the dark. And besides, her actions have less to do with her, and everything to do with you.

Jaye Frances

#26. You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

William John Wills

#27. My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.

Rafael Nadal

#28. I look at you, Mrs. Emily. I see your eyes smile before your lips. Your hair has a curl that droops onto your forehead when the weather is humid . . .

I look at you too, Sabine. I see you.

Phyllis H. Moore