Canterbury tales Quote by Jacopo della Quercia

“Chaucer's world in The Canterbury Tales brings together, for the first time, a diversity of characters, social levels, attitudes, and ways of life. The…

— Ronald Carter

“Geoffrey Chaucer, the first author in the English language, devoted the longest story in The Canterbury Tales to the Asian conqueror Genghis Khan of…

— Jack Weatherford

“people can die of mere imagination - Geffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales”

— Paul Strohm

I actually pushed the boundaries on how long a book like this [The Thorn and the Blossom] can be. The original plan called for…

— Theodora Goss

The tales are quite hard to remember and I found that going back to it between bouts of writing fiction, I was having to…

— Marina Warner

Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair. It is a true tale of grief and trial, and sorrow,…

— Charles Dickens

All stories, if continued far enough, end in death.

— Ernest Hemingway

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Stories never really end...even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any…

— Cornelia Funke

A story is not finished, until it took the worst turn.

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along. Read one.…

— Mavis Gallant

I work continuously within the shadow of failure. For every novel that makes it to my publisher's desk, there are at least five or…

— Gail Godwin