England Quote by Marilynne Robinson

For those who have only ever read about [John] Calvin, reading the man himself is an invigorating experience.

— Oliver D. Crisp

Reading [John] Calvin is a breath of fresh air.

— Oliver D. Crisp

[John] Calvin is often identified with his account of predestination. Yet that appears in the third book of his Institutes, not the first.

— Oliver D. Crisp

[John] Calvin is revered as a thinker of immense importance in Reformed thought, Jonathan Edwards could say in his preface to his treatise on…

— Oliver D. Crisp

[John Calvin's] Humanist training makes him an excellent writer. What is more, he is as relevant today as he was 500 years ago.

— Oliver D. Crisp

Calvino was not a writer of hits; he was a writer of classics.

— William Weaver

Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's…

— Alex Cox

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in…

— Oscar Wilde

There was a time when Stefan Zweig was the most widely read author in the world. He was lionized everywhere, translated into every language.…

— Andre Aciman

Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the…

— Michael Swanwick

I consider William Gay one of the great writers that no one has ever heard of.

— W. Earl Brown

My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic,…

— Patti Smith