Balzac Quote by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“Thackeray is careful not to present a protagonist who is malevolently evil from birth; to trace a figure like this is unrewarding certainly to…

— Martin J. Anisman

“I kept my door more securely locked than ever and passed the time with foreign novels. Since Balzac was Luo's favourite I put him…

— Dai Sijie

“One likes to think that there is some fantastic limbo for the children of imagination, some strange, impossible place where the beaux of Fielding…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland,…

— J. M. Coetzee

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

— Henry Miller

I grew up hearing that if it hadn't been for Ataturk, my grandmother would have been 'a covered person' who would have been reliant…

— Elif Batuman

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I…

— Camille Paglia

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy…

— Hervey Allen

The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly…

— Victor Hugo

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all…

— Tobias Wolff

“Thackeray's a good writer and Flaubert is a great artist. Trollope is a good writer and Dickens is a great artist. Colette is a…

— Truman Capote

“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me years ago…

— William Arthur Sirmon