Book Quote by Virginia Woolf

I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.

— Eleanor Catton

“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

Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in English. Mead…

— Harold Bloom

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.

— The Edge

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel…

— Howard Nemerov

I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before.

— Stephen Dobyns

All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good…

— Christina Stead

Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years…

— P. D. James

'Jane Eyre,' when I think of that book, it conjures up the best moments of college English courses. Literature is extraordinary, especially when you…

— Edward P. Jones

I began to be impressed by what made a good book-how you needed to have a sensible story, a plot that developed, with a…

— Dorothy Fields

The best novels are those that are important without being like medicine; they have something to say, are expansive and intelligent but never forget…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“There is a big difference between an imperfect book that is read and a perfect book that is never written”

— Don Newman