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
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'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
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
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
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates 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
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
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
But the cinephile is … a neurotic! (That’s not a pejorative term.) The Bronte sisters were neurotic, and it’s because they were… — Francois Truffaut 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
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
“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
“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'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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But… — Anonymous 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 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
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