I mainly read histories and biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy. — Ben Elliot Copy Share Image
I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence. — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
English country life is more like Chekhov than 'The Archers' or Thomas Hardy or even the Updike ethic with which it is… — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
“Like Thomas Hardy with his Casterbridge, my own fictional Pennington is based on a well-known English county town, which I embellish with… — Catherine George 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 sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice. — Mu Xin Copy Share Image
“We late-lamented, resting here, Are mixed to human jam, And each to each exclaims in fear, ‘I know not which I am!’… — Deborah Crombie Copy Share Image
“I must assume that knowing is better than not know, venturing better than not venturing; and that magic and illusion, however rich,… — Irvin D. Yalom 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
Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“Few poets better convey the uneasy transition from Victorianism to Modernism than Thomas Hardy. His novels, written between 1870 and 1895, made… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“If 'dead' matter has reared up this curious landscape of fiddling crickets, song sparrows, and wondering men, it must be plain even… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
“Stilletos of a frozen stillicide [...] In the lovely line heading this comment the reader should note the last word. My dictionary… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a novel that I have read over and over and over again. Tess is a… — Laetitia Casta Copy Share Image
I really, really wanted to write. I loved language. I loved literature. I loved reading. I never read a foreign language, I'm… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
“The truth about any artist, however terrible, is better than the silence… I know many writers fight fanatically to keep their published… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“I The moving sun-shapes on the spray, The sparkles where the brook was flowing, Pink faces, plightings, moonlit May, These were the… — Christopher Nuttall 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
“Haunting the library as a kid, reading poetry books when I was not reading bird books, I had been astonished at how… — Kenn Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Last Victorian and Edwardian Britain saw a mega-change in reading habits. For the first time fiction took the primary place in book… — Iain H. Murray Copy Share Image
“West Country novelist Thomas Hardy almost did not survive his birth in 1840 because everyone thought he was stillborn. He did not… — Phil Mason Copy Share Image
“During any prolonged activity one tends to forget original intentions. But I believe that, when making a start on A Month in… — J.L. Carr Copy Share Image
“The Convergence of the Twain Thomas Hardy, 1840 - 1928 (Lines on the loss of the “Titanic”) I In a solitude of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“When I mentioned to a friend I was writing a book about eggs he told me to be sure to mention how… — Tim Birkhead Copy Share Image
“What about fateful turns in your life? Naturalists like Thomas Hardy proposed that some people are simply born under 'a blighted star'… — Roger Leslie Copy Share Image
“Under coverture, a wife was required to live where her husband demanded, her earnings belonged to her husband and her children were… — Carole Pateman Copy Share Image
![“one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.” quote by Rebecca West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4e/rebecca-west-1248_ancestor_one-of-mr-thomas-hardy-s-ancestors-must_2959484.jpg)
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