I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing.…

— Walter Murch

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

— Siri Hustvedt

Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. It's very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men…

— Bernard Beckett

If you read novels of the 19th century, they're pretty experimental. They take lots of chances; they seem to break a lot of rules.…

— Jennifer Egan

I'm just interested in serialization in fiction. I'm fascinated by it. I love the 19th-century novels. I'm interested in ways to bring that back…

— Jennifer Egan

Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs in the…

— Tim Harford

I basically have the diet of a 19th-century Irish navy, apart from the litre of stout a day. It's meat and potatoes and bread…

— Daniel Radcliffe

In the 19th century China dominated the manufacture of porcelain. Then European factories discovered a cheaper method of making pottery of equal quality, demolishing…

— Martin Sorrell

An ethic of maternalism was central to the utopianism of 19th century feminists. I don't think that today's women see motherhood as a source…

— Clare Wright

Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a…

— Newt Gingrich

. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that…

— James A. Michener

If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many…

— Alan Moore

If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you…

— Zygmunt Bauman

By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell…

— Tom Standage

Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at…

— Hillary Clinton