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Let's face it: the 19th century really was the great age of the novel - Melville, Hawthorne, Tolstoy. These are the people I really…

— Mark Kurlansky

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let…

— Victor Hugo

I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I…

— Julia Glass

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.

— Marilynne Robinson

“...in one hundred years we have lost the best human virtues of the nineteenth century: fervent idealism and the primacy of feeling: the shock…

— Gabriel García Márquez

I think that when you look at the great politicians, the two greatest in my view were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, they certainly…

— John McCain

“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

— Robert Louis Stevenson

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for…

— Matthew Simpson

Did the nineteenth-century novelists create more generously than we do now? In a general reading of contemporary work, do you see a lot of…

— Lore Segal

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles…

— Mark Leyner

The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the…

— Oscar Wilde