19th century Quote by Mark Kurlansky

As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

— David Duchovny

My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think.

— Marilynne Robinson

I love 19th century fiction and, in particular, fiction written by and about women.

— Gail Honeyman

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

I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I…

— Julia Glass

“Between the ages of ten and fifteen in St. Petersburg, I must have read more fiction and poetry—English, Russian and French—than in any other…

— Vladimir Nabokov

There's such a wealth of literature from the 18th century and 19th century, George Eliot... Jane Austen... that's all about a genteel high society,…

— Steven Knight

Did the nineteenth-century novelists create more generously than we do now? In a general reading of contemporary work, do you see a lot of…

— Lore Segal

As far as what I do, my value as a writer is certainly not to try to recapitulate a 19th century form. Certain styles…

— Mark Leyner

“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

Barrie and the wonderful characters he created, Lewis Carroll, even French literature, like Baudelaire or over in the States, Poe, you open those books,…

— Johnny Depp

“We've inherited many ideas about writing that emerged in the eighteenth century, especially an interest in literature as both an expression and an exploration…

— James Shapiro