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Anthony Trollope was an English novelist known for his detailed portrayals of Victorian British society. His works often centered around political and administrative themes, showcasing his profound insights into social structures and class divisions.

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Famous Anthony Trollope Quotes

“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he has to tell a story, but because he has a story to tell. The novelist's first novel will generally have sprung from the right cause.”

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Book:Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

Source: Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm that has enabled him to dispense with human nature.”

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Book:Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

Source: Autobiography of Anthony Trollope

“When a man wants to write a book full of unassailable facts, he always goes to the British Museum.”

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Book:The Landleaguers

Source: The Landleaguers

“When I sit down to write a novel I do not at all know, and I do not very much care, how it is to end.”

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Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.”

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Book:Barchester Towers

Source: Barchester Towers

“The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.”

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Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.”

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Author:Anthony Trollope

“My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest at it, and will work with the most honest purpose, will work the best.”

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Book:An autobiography

Source: An autobiography

“This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.”

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Book:The Bertrams: A Novel

Source: The Bertrams: A Novel

“The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little - or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.”