19th century Quote by John Irving

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out…

— Colin Meloy

The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not…

— Jeanette Winterson

I'm not sure if you can strive your way into a career as a novelist. You have to write books; there are no short…

— Rachel Kushner

I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.

— Julian Barnes

As a novelist, you write about social mores, but not everything can be explained.

— Elif Batuman

“The operas I loved were nineteenth-century novels!”

— John Irving

I'm not a twentieth-century novelist, I'm not modern, and certainly not postmodern. I follow the form of the nineteenth-century novel; that was the century…

— John Irving

“I have not read most of the big 19th — century novels that people consider “essential,” nor most of the 20th-century ones for that…

— Teju Cole

“She...wanted no one—apart from men in nineteenth-century novels, which put a whole new spin on the idea of 'unattainable.”

— Kate Atkinson

In the end, of course, all novelists will be judged by their novels, but let's not forget that we will also need new ways…

— Pankaj Mishra

“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that…

— Pat Conroy

Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are…

— Steve Martin