Century Quote by Thomas Keneally

“Bogus Oxford men he could deal with, just as in his time he had known classics masters who had no Greek and parsons who…

— John le Carré

“Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of…

— George Gissing

Modern novels have become part of the do-it-yourself business, and they come in a very small number of standard kits. (...) In this wilderness…

— David Pryce-Jones

“All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as…

— Walter Dean Myers

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself...

— George Eliot

Intellectuals of [Albert] Camus' age who had previously disliked him now appreciate him. And at that point we come back to literature, and it's…

— Catherine Camus

“John Hawkes is an extraordinary writer. I have always admired his books. They should he more widely read.”

— Saul Bellow

“Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was…

— Thomas Hardy

“But really, the Gray Man found that he didn't want to talk about his work. Not because he was ashamed of it -- he…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Peter Mandelson is one of the most odious, self-satisfied, misogynistic men I have ever met. Compellingly, fascinatingly horrible.

— Jemima Khan

Gutenberg and Richter were very great men.

— Frank Press

He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took…

— Virginia Woolf