Always Quote by Jennifer Egan

I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.

— Sal Khan

I'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in ways I'm…

— Jennifer Egan

I myself love to read those Victorian novels which go on and on, and you don't read them in one sitting. You might read…

— Joan Didion

I like all sorts of things, not necessarily just Victorian. Even though I tend to read a lot of Victorian novels, I like a…

— Colin Meloy

I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature…

— Eleanor Catton

I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.

— Ken Follett

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

— Megan Chance

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

— Philippa Gregory

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could…

— Georgia King

I really hate the term 'historical novel' - it reminds me of bodice-rippers. But I'm hooked on research, and I really, really enjoy it.

— Hannah Kent

I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from…

— Ashwin Sanghi