Books Quote by Jerome K. Jerome

“The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.”

— Zane Grey

“She had a tall bearing and a tall voice and a tall manner, and was tall in every respect except height. Amazingly, she'd apparently…

— Terry Pratchett

The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level…

— Caitlín R. Kiernan

“and she had altogether the air of a woman clipped and pruned by severe discipline, an under–brightness shining through from the depths which that…

— Thomas Hardy

“Perhaps if by chance I was seen arranging the shop window in my underpants, some lady in need of strong literary emotions would be…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille

“Could there be a slenderer, more insignificant thread in human history than this consciousness of a girl, busy with her small inferences of the…

— George Eliot

“Be like the single blade of grass. For she too, has been trampled on, mowed down, and hit with such bitterly cold stretches that…

— Sandra Kring

“She is a tyrant much in the way of a bad novelist, who shapes his characters according to his own ideology or desires and…

— Azar Nafisi

“Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!”

— William Dean Howells

“One could not but play for a moment with the thought of what might have happened if Charlotte Brontë had possessed say three hundred…

— Virginia Woolf

“Her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of…

— George Eliot