19th century Quote by Mark Leyner

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 was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.

— James A. Michener

“NINETEENTH-CENTURY AUTHORS TENDED TO INTERPRET history as a progression from savagery to civilization. Key hallmarks of this transition included the development of agriculture, metallurgy,…

— Jared Diamond

I have been the creative literary mind of the century.

— Gertrude Stein

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

— Bess Streeter Aldrich

“I believe that a writer should never attempt a contemporary theme or a very precise topography. Otherwise people are immediately going to find mistakes.…

— Fernando Sorrentino

You can include essay elements in fiction; this is a very nineteenth century practice.

— Susan Sontag

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

“I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew was mentioned,…

— Ian McEwan

I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that…

— Pat Conroy

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.

— Joseph Boyden

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary…

— Helen Dunmore