Books Quote by Steven Knight

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

— Margaret Atwood

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

— David Duchovny

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

Let's face it: the 19th century really was the great age of the novel - Melville, Hawthorne, Tolstoy. These are the people I really…

— Mark Kurlansky

“At college, I was told there were four great women novelists in the 19th century – Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte and Emily Brontë.…

— Jeanette Winterson

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think…

— Jodi Picoult

I had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature…

— Eleanor Catton

At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel as carefully…

— Michel Faber

I was in school for literature, and read so many 19th century and early 20th century novels that it was hard to break out…

— Colin Meloy

“No Victorian novel approaches Middlemarch in its width of reference, its intellectual power, or the imperturbable spaciousness of its narrative... I doubt if any…

— V.S. Pritchett

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could…

— Georgia King

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