"But you know, where did the Brontes go……" — Jamaica Kincaid

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• Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte… — J.A. Konrath
• The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited… — James A. Michener
• Nom de Plume uses the device of the pseudonym to unite the likes of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, Fernando Pessoa,… — Elif Batuman
• So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the… — Francine Prose
• We read Charlotte Bronte not for exquisite observation of character, not for comedy, not for a philosophic view of life,… — Virginia Woolf
• To read Helen Macdonald's memoir, H Is for Hawk, is to feel as though Emily Bronte just turned up at… — Maureen Corrigan
• I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her… — Laura Marling
• I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought… — Frances O'Connor
• I loved Charlotte Bronte when I was little, and I wanted to be Charlotte Bronte the way people want to… — Jamaica Kincaid
• Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so… — Jessica Brown Findlay
• My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates
• You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as… — C.S. Lewis

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