English Novelist

Famous quotes containing the words english and/or novelist:

    “The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.”
    —17th-century English proverb, pt. 1, quoted in Isaac d’Israeli, Curiosities of Literature (1834)

    “Where does any novelist pick up any character? For the most part, in town, to be sure.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)