“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
Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you… — Alice Munro 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
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 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
Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.… — SangFroid Stalker 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
I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten… — Jamaica Kincaid 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
“We are always sure that the heroine is fiery and passionate, which is quite an achievement when the plot has had to… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“[On Wuthering Heights] Here, all the faults of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë are magnified a thousand fold, and the only consolation… — James Lorimer Copy Share Image
We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character - her characters are vigorous and elementary; not for comedy - hers… — Virginia Woolf 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
“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
“Velg hva du vil, Anni, sa Indira. Hun var like rastløs her som jeg hadde vært i avdelingen for dameklær. For en… — Lucinda Riley 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
“You can’t take a class if taking a class feels like it’s going to kill you. Faking it never works. If you… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“Like most people I lived for a long time with my mother and father. My father liked to watch the wrestling, my… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“On Saturday mornings during deliveries, I'd practice picking out new words in Jane Eyre, sounding out the ones that needed sounding out—and… — Gary D. Schmidt 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
“There was is Arthur Nicholls much to recommend him to Charlotte Bronte, not least of which was the disparity between surface and… — Juliet Gael Copy Share Image
“Such an attitude presupposes confidence in one's own power to search for and recognize the truth, as well as trust in the… — Marianne Thormählen Copy Share Image
“consciousness. Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton (1848) and North and South (1855), Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley (1849), George Eliot’s Silas Marner (1861) and many… — Neil Hegarty Copy Share Image
“The first unanalysed impression that most readers receive from Jane Eyre is that it has a very violent atmosphere. If this were… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“Oh, don't get me started! I love fantasy, I read it for pleasure, even after all these years. Pat McKillip, Ursula Le… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“The small Japanese immortal sat cross-legged, his two swords resting flat on the ground before him. He folded his hands in his… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Reading Mrs Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Brontë after Jane Eyre is a curious experience. The subject of the biography is recognisably the… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“t this point I would like to return to the question of the plot movement and the different narrative levels of the… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“What did we talk about? I don't remember. We talked so hard and sat so still that I got cramps in my… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
“On the bus, I pull out my book. It's the best book I've ever read, even if I'm only halfway through. It's… — Fanny Britt Copy Share Image
“One could not but play for a moment with the thought of what might have happened if Charlotte Brontë had possessed say… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“[Charlotte Brontë] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making their heroines beautiful as a… — Elizabeth Gaskell 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
“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other… — Mary Lascelles Copy Share Image
A few times a year I'll remember that I love old literature, too. Charlotte Brontë's "Jane Eyre" is one of my 10… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited… — Hope Nicholson 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
![“[Charlotte Bronte] had thought of every maneuver for circumventing those stony obstructions of wives who would not remove themselves.” quote by Elizabeth Hardwick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f48/elizabeth-hardwick-10519_bronte_charlotte-bronte-had-thought-of-every-ma_1381449.png)
![“[On Wuthering Heights] Here, all the faults of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë are magnified a thousand fold, and the only consolation which we have in reflecting upon it is that it will never be generally read. [North British Review, 1847]” quote by James Lorimer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddd/james-lorimer-245543_bad-reviews_on-wuthering-heights-here-all-the-faults_2823597.jpg)
![“[Charlotte Brontë] once told her sisters that they were wrong - even morally wrong - in making their heroines beautiful as a matter of course. They replied that it was impossible to make a heroine interesting on any other terms. Her answer was, 'I will prove to you that you are wrong; I will show…” quote by Elizabeth Gaskell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/831/elizabeth-gaskell-894_bronte-sisters_charlotte-bront-once-told-her-sisters-th_1552010.jpg)
![“I would say it was [ifluence] all the Greeks and the Russian classics like [Lev] Tolstoy, [Andrey] Goncharov,[Fedor] Dostoyevsky, [Alexander] Pushkin, and the international classics in Russian translation like Victor Hugo, George Sand, Charlotte Bronte, Sir Walter Scott, Mark Twain.” quote by Vera Nazarian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/002/vera-nazarian-1671_bronte_i-would-say-it-was-ifluence-all-the-gree_2921445.jpg)