Books Quote by Jennifer Egan

I love working with genre. And to me, the Victorian novel is the flourishing ancestor I'm always trying to access when I write.

— Jennifer Egan

I'm obsessed with the Victorian era and the British Royal Navy... I'd love to play a troubled sailor or captain or a boatman on…

— Nick Offerman

“No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative... I doubt if any…

— V.S. Pritchett

“Length, I want to suggest, has a peculiar significance for the reader of a Victorian novel and especially so if we are concerned with…

— Ian Gregor

There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.

— Jon Weisman

It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's 'The Birth…

— Paul Di Filippo

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

— Sidney Sheldon

She is like a book with many pages, like a novel with ironic flaws, unpredictable twist with a dash of sarcastic humor, like a…

— Epifania Savea

Life is like a novel. You are the author and everyday is a new page

— Anonymous

“A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth…

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

“Life isn't like a novel, you know. In life you have to take sides. And it's clear which side you've chosen.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A good biography is the richest experience. When you watch a TV series together with someone is like being in a novel with them.

— Darcey Steinke