Top 20 Quotes About Gothic Novels: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Gothic Novels

#1. Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.

Joyce Carol Oates

#2. But are they all horrid, are you sure they are all horrid? [Referring to Gothic novels, fashionable in England at the beginning of the 19th century, but frowned upon in polite society.]

Jane Austen

#3. I've been acting professionally since I was 15 years old, and after a while, you get really tired of people telling you one thing and then doing another.

Liz Vassey

#4. Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

Stephen King

#5. We know how to get all of the energy we need without using dirty or dangerous fuel sources. It is no longer a question of whether we can - but of whether we will

Michael Brune

#6. It is a joy to share good advice. It takes a grateful ear to listen wisely. It's always up for us to take the right action and fulfilling path that can truly serve for what is the best.

Angelica Hopes

#7. I hate her."
"Yes. I know. In fact, I think the entire universe knows.

Shelly Laurenston

#8. When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#9. You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

Robert Cormier

#10. I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.

Yoko Ono

#11. A spiritual intention is a resounding YES to awakening to your fullest potential. It may include several of your life structures: mental, emotional, financial, relational - because there is no aspect of your life that is not spiritual.

Michael Beckwith

#12. I so rarely turned down a role, that I can't say I have any regrets in that regard. There were many roles that I would rather not have done, but having a home and family requires that we sometimes do things we would rather not.

Terry O'Quinn

#13. 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

#14. Why would anyone wish to be provincial in time, any more than being tied down to one place through life, when the whole reach of the human drama is there to experience in some of the greatest books ever written.

David McCullough