Source: Sense and Sensibility
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 3
“Matthew Lewis [was] the genre's first punk, the Johnny Rotten of the Gothic novel.”
Stephen King, in Matthew Lewis The Monk (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002) p. vi.
Criticism
“You’ve been assigned an identity since birth.”
Source: Going Bovine (2009), p. 253
Context: You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.
...the children had to live, so while waiting for logic to sanctify their existence, they throve and multiplied.
Number: The Language of Science (1930)
“Distinctive signs, full signs, never seduce us.”
Source: 1980s, The Ecstasy of Communication (1987), p. 59
On how she hopes to change poetry by bringing it towards visual art in “A Graphic Revolution Talking Poetry & Politics with Giannina Braschi” https://www.academia.edu/36916781/A_Graphic_Revolution_Talking_Poetry_and_Politics_with_Giannina_Braschi in Chiricú Journal (2018)
"The Mustard magazine interview" (January 2005)
Context: Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.
Source: Sartre: Romantic Rationalist (1953), Ch. 10, p. 138
