Books Quote by John Irving

It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and…

— Ilya Ehrenburg

“Because it is written by a nineteenth-century American, and because of its closeness to the twentieth century, The Portrait of a Lady foregoes Victorian…

— Ian Gregor

“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

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

I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.

— John Irving

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 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

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

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

“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

Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.

— Glen Duncan