Love Quote by Gabriel Tallent

“No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative... I doubt if any…

— V.S. Pritchett

“He wanted to know if the master sergeant had read Auden, the twentieth century's most influential Christian poet, "English majors in the army, not…

— Bob Shacochis

“Eliot was scornful of idle women readers who imagined themselves the heroines of French novels, and of self-regarding folk who saw themselves in the…

— Rebecca Mead

“I was reading Charlotte Bronte, and Jane was being serenaded by Mr. Rochester. (I see the source of all my problems: a Bronte was…

— Zen Cho

“Mr. Elliot was rational, discreet, polished, – but he was not open. There was never any burst of feeling, any warmth of indignation or…

— Jane Austen

“Every writer owes something to Holmes." -- T.S. Eliot, in The Criterion, 1929”

— T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

“Some very eminent critics writing in the decades immediately after the novel's publication felt that Eliot failed to maintain sufficient critical distance in her…

— Rebecca Mead

“Oh, Lord Montgomery, what do you mean to do with me in this bedroom when you have me all alone? An innocent maiden, and…

— Cassandra Clare

“Lady Russell had only to listen composedly, and wish them happy, but internally her heart revelled in angry pleasure, in pleased contempt, that the…

— Jane Austen

“but you are very well aware that I belong to that remarkable class of authors who, when they are bearing anything about in their…

— Leslie S. Klinger

“You have turned your back on common men, on their elementary needs and their restricted time and intelligence [...] I ask: who the hell…

— H.G. Wells

“She's one you *really* care about, isn't she?" Eliot shook his head. "How can you read other people so well, and completely misread me?"…

— Keith R.A. DeCandido