Books Quote by Lucinda Riley

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

— Laura Marling

I must confess I love female writers: Jane Austen, Isak Dinesen, Colette, Willa Cather, Dawn Powell, Joan Didion. I grew up on the Bronte…

— Anjelica Huston

“I rolled my eyes at her image, grinning back at me from the hair dye box, and consoled myself with the thought that even…

— Patricia Caliskan

“The Brontë sisters have a renewed hold upon our imagination. They were gifted, well-educated, especially self-educated, and desperate. Their seriousness and poverty separated them…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Of course, Jack Kilborn is better than both of us combined and mixed with a side helping of the Bronte sisters.

— J.A. Konrath

I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess…

— Andrew Davies

“Hi," I said. "I'm the last of the Brontë sisters.”

— Matt Ruff

It's hard to imagine what the Bronte sisters' lives would've been like had they been men. Different things would've been expected of them, and…

— Chloe Pirrie

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

— Oscar Wilde

At the height of the British Empire very few English novels were written that dealt with British power. It's extraordinary that at the moment…

— Salman Rushdie

Reading English novels I always adore the ability to write without fear about inner psychological things that are so delicate.

— Olga Tokarczuk

In Among the White Moon Faces, I wrote about my desire to be a writer as rooted in my obsessive hours of reading English…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim