Books Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick

“How a human being could have attempted such a book [Wuthering Heights] as the present without committing suicide before he had finished a dozen…

— George R. Graham

'Wuthering Heights' is portrayed as a great romantic novel, and when I read it again, I thought, 'How is this romantic? All these people…

— Chloe Pirrie

“Wuthering Heights, however it may appear in retrospect, demands a reading of the utmost intensity, the feeling present in the writing seems to seek…

— Ian Gregor

“I think sometimes in literature we kind of police ourselves. I know a lot of people talked about Twilight, and they would say, oh,…

— Libba Bray

This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration…

— Michel Houellebecq

“What do you think is my favourite book? Just now, I mean; I change every three days. "Wuthering Heights." Emily Bronte was quite young…

— Jean Webster

“[On Wuthering Heights] Here, all the faults of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë are magnified a thousand fold, and the only consolation which we…

— James Lorimer

“THE HE’S ARE SHE’S In 1847, three novels excite England’s readers. Wuthering Heights by Ellis Bell tells a devastating tale of passion and shame.…

— Eduardo Galeano

“Far rather would I be condemned to a perpetual dwelling in the infernal regions, than, even for one night, abide beneath the roof of…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Just think of Emily Bronte, for example: psychotically bookish - but was there ever a woman screaming out so loudly for a good f***ing?…

— Mil Millington

“Maybe it was the novels I read - the racier Mills & Boon romances of late, Danielle Steel instructing me on international sex and sin.”

— Manil Suri

“One could not but play for a moment with the thought of what might have happened if Charlotte Brontë had possessed say three hundred…

— Virginia Woolf