Best Quote by Edward P. Jones

I grew up with 'Jane Eyre,' reading it at school, and it's one of those, I think, for a lot of women, a lot…

— Sally Hawkins

Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book.…

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so compelling that…

— Cary Fukunaga

I was an English major in university and that got me into novels, but I read a lot of books as a kid.

— Dan Mangan

A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love…

— Charles Darwin

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

I really liked English literature, a subject I did really well at.

— Eniola Aluko

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

To keep an active mind, I find that reading novels is really good.

— Alison Pill

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could…

— Georgia King

I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of old mysteries.…

— Josh Lieb

Literature bores me, especially great literature

— John Berryman