19th century Quote by Eleanor Catton

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

— Ken Follett

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 like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a…

— Colin Meloy

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out…

— Colin Meloy

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

— Sal Khan

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 have not read most of the big 19th — century novels that people consider “essential,” nor most of the 20th-century ones for that…

— Teju Cole

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

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian…

— Dawn French

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