America Quote by Ernest Hemingway

She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ...

— Barbara Pym

... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her…

— Virginia Woolf

“And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and…

— Virginia Woolf

No one ever addresses the possibility that a writer might not like her book.

— Emily Gould

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

— Michael Cunningham

“America stands before the world as an impetuous void, a fatality without substance. Nothing prepared her for hegemony; yet she tends toward it, not…

— Emil Cioran

Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so…

— Roger Ebert

American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be…

— Christopher Dawson

At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.”

— Alain de Botton

Love so sprang at her, she honestly thought no one had ever looked into it. Where was it in literature? Someone would have written…

— Annie Dillard

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax