19th century Quote by Gail Honeyman Download Open image “I love 19th century fiction and, in particular, fiction written by and about women.” — Gail Honeyman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare 19th century About Century Fiction Fiction Fiction Particular I love Love Particular Fiction Women Writing Written Women
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates. Most of… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read. — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
“At college, I was told there were four great women novelists in the 19th century – Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte and Emily Brontë.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
I did a co-authored book not so long ago that was an American historical romance set at the turn of the century. I'm fascinated… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that… — Hilary Swank Copy Share Image
I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's… — Ann Beattie Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“I go over most Sundays,' he went on. 'She doesn't get out much - I'm sure she'd love to see a new face.' 'Even… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Men like Raymond, pedestrial dullards, would always be distracted by women who looked like her, having neither the wit nor the sophistication to see… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“I allowed my mind to wander. I’ve found this to be a very effective way of passing the time; you take a situation or… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Some people, weak people, fear solitude. What they fail to understand is that there’s something very liberating about it; once you realize that you… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“The moment hung in time like a drop of honey from a spoon, heavy, golden.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“I have always enjoyed reading, but I've never been sure how to select appropriate material. There are so many books in the world--how do… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“A human hand was exactly the right weight, exactly the right temperature for touching another person, I realized.” — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I know some writers are meticulous planners, but I'm not one of them. — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“I do exist, don’t I? It often feels as if I’m not here, that I’m a figment of my own imagination. There are days… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
I wanted to show platonic friendship between men and women, because I think it is underutilised in fiction. — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Though my grandmother had picked up modern ideas in America, she still had some conflicting 19th-century Irish notions. She believed that daughters, educated though… — Rosemary Mahoney Copy Share Image
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“Washington was no politician as we understand the word," replied Ratcliffe abruptly. "He stood outside of politics. The thing couldn't be done today. The… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like the railroads that brought us together in the 19th century, these trails will bring us together in the 20th and 21st centuries. (at… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
By tracing the careers of the four members of the Philosophical Breakfast Club, Laura Snyder has found a wonderful way not just to tell… — Tom Standage Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
“The Victorian era was an age of superlatives and larger-than-life characters, and as far as that goes, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse fit right in: what… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing.… — Walter Murch Copy Share Image
There are real issues that the president Donald Trump and particularly Steve Bannon, his political adviser, are pushing. It's a vision, a rather dark… — James Franklin Jeffrey Copy Share Image
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