Book Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“On all sides, as far as the eye could reach, rose the grass-covered heaps marking the site of ancient habitations. The great tide of…

— Austen Henry Layard

“But as nothing, Western or local, came to fill the void, the great drive to Westernise amounted mostly to the erasure of the past;…

— Orhan Pamuk

“In the East, he then believed, a man went to college not for vocational training but in disciplined search for wisdom and beauty, and…

— Richard Yates

The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

— Tom Mix

“Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks. People go west when all bets are off:…

— Karen Hines

“When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.”

— Gerald W. Haslam

As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little…

— Jung Chang

“The common where we had walked the previous evening was a deserted tract of land, typical of Surrey, looking as if it might be…

— Anthony Powell

“This was the place that shaped Arthur, this backwater, where the deep British past persisted the way scraps of winter snow last late into…

— Lev Grossman

“...it occurred to me, not for the first time, what a remarkably small world Britain is. That is its glory, you see--that it manages…

— Bill Bryson

With Westerns you have the landscape is important, and it's empty, and only you populate it. When you populate it, you can tell any…

— Lawrence Kasdan

“London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater…

— E.M. Forster