Fictional-men Quote by Kate Atkinson

“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

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

— 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

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

“To be with her – that was all … all he yearned for and all he lacked. To be with her until the sun turned black.”

— Clémentine Beauvais

“I don't think I'd be able to deny you a single thing if you asked, Catalina”

— Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“I'll give you the world. The moon. The fucking stars. Anything you ask, it's yours. I'm yours.”

— Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“You cannot be sad ina flower crown." - Enzo”

— Lexie Janson

“The problem, dear Dominic, is that these men are fictional because the ones we love the most are written by women.”

— S.H. Easton

“You've never needed anyone to fight your battles, Catalina. That's one of the things I respect the most about you.”

— Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“I was the boy who killed his first man at eleven. I was the teenager who crushed his cousin’s throat at seventeen. I was…

— Cora Reilly