Britain Quote by Paul Theroux

England gave me a language and literature, the basis of what I am as a writer, but when I started writing more directly about…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

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

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to…

— Tracy Chevalier

The really successful work in England tends to be working-class writers telling working-class stories. The film industry has been slow to wake up to…

— Stephen Daldry

I don't know if Britain ever really achieved that much glamour. We had post-war austerity rather than post-war prosperity, and our cultural products of…

— Quentin S. Crisp

I grew up in a very British family who had been transplanted to Canada, and my grandmother's house was filled with English books. I…

— Alan Bradley

I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about…

— Derek Walcott

English culture is highly literary-based.

— Peter Greenaway

I'm sold as a literary writer in Holland; I'm sold as crime fiction in England. I think of it as just literature.

— Karin Slaughter

I had literary interests my whole life. I decided at the age of five I was going to be a writer. So I had…

— Tom Robbins

I had started writing as a poet in a closed, post-Revival, claustrophobic world, where the shadows of the national upheaval and the intense effort…

— Eavan Boland

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a…

— Jonathan Coe