“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Of all the needs a book has the chief need is that it be readable. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale,… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“These leave-takings in novels are as disagreeable as they are in real life; not so sad, indeed, for they want the reality… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?...Was ever anything so civil? — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“No novel is anything, for the purposes either of comedy or tragedy, unless the reader can sympathise with the characters whose names… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Take away from English authors their copyrights, and you would very soon take away from England her authors. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“The persons whom you cannot care for in a novel, because they are so bad, are the very same that you so… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“As for reading, I doubt whether she did much better by the sea-side than she had done in the town. Men and… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“The end of a novel, like the end of children’s dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plum” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
But then in novels the most indifferent hero comes out right at last. Some god comes out of a theatrical cloud and… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“A newspaper that wishes to make its fortune should never waste its columns and weary its readers by praising anything.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English novel?” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
That I can read and be happy while I am reading, is a great blessing. Could I have remembered, as some men… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
