So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with… — Philip Kitcher 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
My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told) protected women from the truth were burst by the Brontës or… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“...Puritanism has made life itself impossible. More than art, more than estheticism, life represents beauty in a thousand variations; it is indeed,… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
There's life for you. Spend the best years of your life studying penmanship and rhetoric and syntax and Beowulf and George Eliot,… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
'Basic Black with Pearls' contains overt references to Virginia Woolf and covert ones to feminist classics like Kate Chopin's 'The Awakening' and… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“I would not have majored in English and gone on to teach literature had I not been able to construct a counterargument… — Mary Rose O'Reilley Copy Share Image
“The loudness of tone in Jane Eyre is undoubtedly effective in communicating tension and frustration, but the style does of course have… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
There's such a wealth of literature from the 18th century and 19th century, George Eliot... Jane Austen... that's all about a genteel… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
“Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim—one upon… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“As for describing the smell of a spaniel mixed with the smell of torches, laurels, incense, banners, wax candles and a garland… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“London’s most famous burial ground, Highgate Cemetery, is renowned for its many famous permanent residents—such as Karl Marx and George Eliot—and for… — Charles River Editors Copy Share Image
“domestic competence utterly alien to her, a kind of miracle. He is saying, “I am in love with George Eliot! My god!… — Gabriel Tallent Copy Share Image
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
I'm an old-fashioned English lit. man. Straight down the line - it's George Eliot, it's Dickens, it's Dr. Johnson, it's Jane Austen. — Howard Jacobson 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
“I refused to have bookshelves, horrified that I'd feel compelled to organise the books in some regimented system - Dewey or alphabetical… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
“At college, I was told there were four great women novelists in the 19th century – Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
