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I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read…

— Joan Didion

I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.

— Sal Khan

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

— Jennifer Egan

I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature…

— Eleanor Catton

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe,…

— Philip Reeve

I like Victorian children's novels extremely a lot. If I would say I collect anything, that's what I'll hunt for now and again at…

— Joss Whedon

I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it,…

— Florence Welch

I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.

— Fred Tomaselli

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

— Megan Chance

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

— Ken Follett

I've always loved Victorian melodrama. And I've always liked larger-than-life theater, providing it's truthful and honest. I like what the theater can provide in…

— Harold Prince

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood