Books Quote by Harper Lee

“Offered a job as book critic for Time magazine as a young man, Bellow had been interviewed by Chambers and asked to give his…

— Christopher Hitchens

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

— Andrew Motion

“But the required survey of English literature troubled and disquieted him in a way nothing had ever done before.”

— John Williams

“Mrs. Heath wanted to sprinkle their minds with grass seed and watch the blades spike up through the earth, flat and predictable as a…

— Elizabeth Brundage

I should tell you that honestly, on my honour of a Nearwicked, I always think in a wordworth's of that primed favourite continental poet,…

— James Joyce

“The Englishman's story seemed unlikely; there had to be a God. Who would have made everything otherwise?”

— Donal Ryan

“Mr. Harrison was certainly different from other people…and that is the essential characteristic of a crank, as everybody knows.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“By the by,” Stephen said, “what is the difference between a viscount and a stallion?” Miss Marshall shook her head. “What is it?” Stephen…

— Courtney Milan

“Crafty Collins took up with him. You wouldn’t have thought they had a thing in common. I mean, Crafty, he had enough upstairs. He…

— Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Henry James's later works would have been better had he resisted that curious sort of self-indulgence, dictating to a secretary. The roaming garrulousness of…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Who would ever think of learning to live out of an English novel?”

— Anthony Trollope

“Of course Christopher would cultivate an English accent: to show that he was an English country gentleman. And he would speak correctly – to…

— Ford Madox Ford