Lipstick Traces : A Secret History of the 20th Century (1989), p. 1.
“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.
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English novelist and dramatist 1775–1818Related quotes
"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.
A Conversation With Jim Butcher, The SF Site, McCune, Alisa, 2004, 2008-02-04 http://www.sfsite.com/08b/jb182.htm,
Simple Plan: The 13th Floor Interview https://www.13thfloor.co.nz/simple-plan-the-13th-floor-interview/ (February 7, 2018)
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)
“Most first novels are disguised autobiographies. This autobiography is a disguised novel.”
Opening lines to the preface, p. 9
Memoirs, Unreliable Memoirs (1980)