19th century Quote by Louis Begley

From my point of view, the Dreyfus affair is most interesting because it was sparked by a single cause celebre. Just one court case…

— Anne Applebaum

The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much…

— Zia Haider Rahman

My view of an excellent novel was probably set in the golden age of fiction in the 19th century: narrative, character and voice are…

— Joanna Trollope

All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that…

— Jo Nesbo

It is less the business of the novelist to tell us what happened than to show how it happened.

— V. S. Pritchett

Many great authors of the 19th century wrote under conditions of strict censorship. The great thing about the art of writing a novel, is…

— Orhan Pamuk

“I had forgotten what fiction was to me as a boy, forgotten what it was like in the library: fiction was an escape from…

— Neil Gaiman

I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in…

— Ian Mcewan

Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems…

— Virginia Woolf

Novels function and the power of novels function because of their stories.

— Mohsin Hamid

While every historical era has its unique appeal as a setting for tales of crime and detection, the 19th century is exceptional - it…

— Sarah Weinman

Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary…

— Raymond Queneau