Experience Quote by Claire Messud

I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before.

— Stephen Dobyns

“Modern poets like Frost still want to make 'deep' statements; but they are also more sceptical of such high-sounding generalities than many of their…

— Terry Eagleton

T.S. Eliot was one of the first poets introduced to me when I started studying literature and has felt like a close friend ever…

— Penelope Mitchell

“Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the…

— Rebecca Mead

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

“The sixties began what many admirers of Eliot would consider a bleak period. The anxiety of influence of the profession at large seemed to…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

“That one can understand The Waste Land without even trying is consoling news for all students of literature.”

— Terry Eagleton

Last year I was a judge for a prize in England, the T.S. Eliot Prize, so I read everything that was published in England…

— Paul Muldoon

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

— David Duchovny

I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.

— Eoin Colfer

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

— Howard Nemerov

“Woolf ’s control over the production of her own work is a significant factor in her genesis as a writer. The Hogarth Press became…

— Jane Goldman