With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
How much he was shaped by being in the hospital so much as a kid. Because he was sick, he was a… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
“You and I are from two different worlds." "Nonsense. We have much in common. We both like books, dogs, poems, Sir Walter… — Karen Hawkins Copy Share Image
“Sixsmith, Eva. Because her name is a synonym for temptation: what treads nearer to the core of man? Because her soul swims… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Having been bred amongst mountains I am always unhappy when in a flat country. Whenever the skirts of the horizon come on… — James Hogg Copy Share Image
“Like Jonathan Swift, Yeats was always a great renamer of his women, giving them mythical aliases or the names of Sir Walter… — Olivia Shakespear Copy Share Image
“I [...] suggest considering Byron as a Scottish poet – I say ’Scottish’, not ’Scots’, since he wrote in English. The one… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“In Britain, chinoiserie was eclipsed by the medievalism of Sir Walter Scott and the Gothic Revival, while in Europe japonisme would be… — Linda Gertner Zatlin Copy Share Image
“Sir Walter Scott created rank & caste in the South and also reverence for and pride and pleasure in them. Life on… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The wretch, concentred all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“He laughed, but his face was unreadable as he looked at her titles. “Ah, a collection from Sir Walter Scott. Very nice,… — Jess Michaels Copy Share Image
My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander Dumas, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sir Walter… — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
“Now that reading and writing are universal accomplishments, books are not bought so freely as they were about 1820. . . .… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Eva knows I'm terra incognita and explores me unhurriedly, like you did. Because she's lean as a boy. Because her scent is… — David Mitchell 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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