About Quote by Tim Minchin

“From then on, Matilda would visit the library only once a week in order to take out new books and return the old ones.…

— Roald Dahl

All that I can cling to is his presence inside her that reveals itself every day. His family and I watch Matilda as she…

— Michelle Williams

“So Matilda's strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the…

— Roald Dahl

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

— Jasper Fforde

I'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in ways I'm…

— Jennifer Egan

“The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding our ‘fair-dinkumness’…

— Tim Macartney-Snape

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

— David Nicholls

“When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us define ourselves…

— George Williamson

For a while Australians were desperately trying to be cosmopolitan. I think it is a pointless exercise. Australian novels are those rooted in Australia,…

— Tim Winton

Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe.…

— Maria Semple

I was lucky enough to grow up in Western Australia and know that the Australian Outback is vast and spell-binding and heart-stoppingly beautiful, and…

— Tim Minchin

I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I…

— Andrew Davies