Books Quote by Cynthia Ozick

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel…

— Howard Nemerov

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's such a wealth of literature from the 18th century and 19th century, George Eliot... Jane Austen... that's all about a genteel high society,…

— Steven Knight

This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's work at…

— Michael Dirda

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are…

— Joanna Trollope

“as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century”

— Oscar Wilde

“No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative... I doubt if any…

— V.S. Pritchett

Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is…

— Orhan Pamuk

“The book was Shelley, and it opened at a passage that he had cherished greatly two years before, and marked as “very good.” “I…

— E.M. Forster

“The realization that a decline in the moral state impedes the flowering of literature is a feeling unique to the Jewish people. Only we…

— Rabbi Kook

“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify…

— Toni Morrison

At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel as carefully…

— Michel Faber