Edith Wharton Quotes

“Edith Wharton with the death penalty”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

The savagery and power of Edith Wharton's ghost stories surprised me.

— Michael Dirda

'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.

— James Frain

My two goals are to read everything Edith Wharton has ever written and to have an art collection.

— Kellie Martin

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

— Charlotte Curtis

I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on…

— Melissa Bank

I live by Edith Wharton's rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on…

— Melissa Bank

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. --Edith Wharton

— Edith Wharton

I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of…

— Ken Follett

“She had such control of tone , in her text messages, she was the Edith Wharton of text messaging.”

— Keith Gessen

Only the fact that we are unaware how well our nearest know us enables us to live with them. Love is the…

— Edith Wharton

Henry James and Edith Wharton are huge for me because they gave me a way to understand America while still respecting the…

— Claire Messud

“You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott…

— Nava Atlas

“I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are…

— Grace Paley

In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always…

— Susan Wiggs

“Ice vs. fire; free choice vs. necessity; weight vs. lightness; emptiness vs. meaning...speaking of emptiness, there was a time today when my…

— Sarah Emily Miano

This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on…

— Mark Bostridge

We English majors...need to promote public libraries as a tool in the war against terror. How many readers of Edith Wharton have…

— Garrison Keillor

“But my subconscious mind--the part I've heard writers call the lizard brain--could and did: it told me to reach for Anne Lamott…

— Sara Nelson

“I had written short stories that were thought worthy of preservation! Was it the same insignificant I that I had always known?…

— Edith Wharton

Edith Wharton was a natural story-teller. As plots do in real life, hers flow directly from character. Her prose is so effortlessly…

— Lionel Shriver

“A skeptic of all sentimentality, she has a witty, rueful voice that gives a deadpan appraisal of the past and present. We…

— Ron Charles

“Sam Anderson. “The Greatest Novel.” New York Magazine (outline). Jan. 9, 2011. New York is, famously, the everything bagel of megalopolises—one of…

— Anonymous

“Edith Wharton did have one potentially redeeming disadvantage: she wasn’t pretty.”

— Jonathan Franzen

“[T]he pain was unspeakable, worse than reading the collected works of Edith Wharton.”

— Kevin Hearne

I love Edith Wharton. And I love old New York. Anything to do with New York.

— Leighton Meester

If Edith Wharton lived in the Age of Innocence, surely we now live in the Age of Deception.

— Pamela Meyer