I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“Reread that Bronte book all you want, but Jane Eyre's never going to get gender-reassignment surgery or train to become a kick-ass… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters. — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to be a… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte has been my all-time favorite book since I was in middle school. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was… — Frances O'Connor Copy Share Image
For standing between Cody and his pain is my obligation, and standing between my uncle and his pain is my rent, but… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.” — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“Riot was her element, as surely as this dark room almost creeping with amassed objects. The street and the hothouse; in V.… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
It's hard to imagine what the Bronte sisters' lives would've been like had they been men. Different things would've been expected of… — Chloe Pirrie Copy Share Image
But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Then you'd better listen, because me sounding like Bronte is one of the signs of the apocalypse-and if the end fo the… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
“I have no objection whatever to your representing me as a little eccentric, since you and your learned friends would have it… — Patrick Brontë Copy Share Image
“The writer has us by the hand, forces us along her road, makes us see what she sees, never leaves us for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I turn to our father, searching for an ally. "So Dad, is it legal for Bronte to date out of her species?"… — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life, but for… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa, and Patricia… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Without those forerunners, Jane Austen and the Brontes and George Eliot could no more have written than Shakespeare could have written without… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“I know more about Emily Bronte than anyone I know. I know enough about her family to have been a part. I’ve… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
“Where my soul went during that swoon I cannot tell. Whatever she saw, or wherever she travelled in her trance on that… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Yet genius of a sort must have existed among women as it must have existed among the working classes. Now and again… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“For a century and a half, people have wondered what factors - genetic and environmental - were especially significant in the evolution… — Marianne Thormählen Copy Share Image
“She pops her head into a bare-looking kitchen and has a little wander round it. Here, she reads, Emily would sometimes make… — Mick Jackson Copy Share Image
I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
“Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be. (Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Charlotte Bronte borrowed liberally and sloppily from Joseph Sheridan le Fanu when penning Jane Eyre. The originality of this classic novel is… — Andrew Barger Copy Share Image
Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Put the jerk in the south wing, you won't see him for weeks at a time. Or lock him in the attic.… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
“I was reading Charlotte Bronte, and Jane was being serenaded by Mr. Rochester. (I see the source of all my problems: a… — Zen Cho Copy Share Image
“The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a… — Juliet Barker Copy Share Image
Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Some people are very unfulfilled. In consequence they write passionately good romance because they believe that they could still find happiness. Emily… — Charlotte Bingham Copy Share Image
To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at your door,… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
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