Books Quote by Jane Austen

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet,…

— Jane Austen

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be…

— Jane Austen

“You, who taught us to love our Walter Scott next to our “Christian Year,” and who gave us half-crowns for rehearsing him when other…

— Charlotte Mary Yonge

“I've read seventeen novels and bushels of poetry-- really necessary novels like Vanity Fair and Richard Feverel and Alice in Wonderland. Also Emerson's Essays…

— Jean Webster

“Scott took LITERATURE so solemnly. He never understood that it was just writing as well as you can and finishing what you start.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Writing a successful novel is a great challenge, and you have to be a bit of a poet, a bit of a critic, a…

— Anis Shivani

“He was universally charming, as only a writer in pursuit of a publisher can be.”

— Stacy Schiff

“You're a writer, though. Your words are malleable, replaceable, and by definition untrustworthy. they mean nothing to you and that's what I'm afraid I…

— Morgan Parker

“John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read.”

— Saul Bellow

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable…

— John Gardner

“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being…

— Colin Bateman

“It happens that in our phase of civility, the novel is the central form of literary art. It lends itself to explanations borrowed from…

— Frank Kermode