Born on September 10th

"The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity."

"Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained."

"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."

"The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies."

"In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked."

"IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction."

"The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers."

"Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to."

"Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel."

"Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit."

"The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure."

"I actually don't mind a bit of football banter from opposing fans. In fact, I quite like getting hammered by supporters of other clubs. But it's when you get it from your own fans that it's not nice."

"I need to vary up my game, and I'm working on that. I know I need to get better."

"I used to love jumping into the bushes in my back garden, thinking I was jumping into the crowd after I scored in front of the Holte End."

"If you look at Dele, he does everything. He wants the ball into feet. Sometimes he'll run in behind; sometimes he'll get the ball in the box - he's all energy. He does everything."

"It's hard to deal with defeat."

"When you get on the pitch, you've got to take your chance, and that's what I'm trying to do."

"I struggled with the limelight."

"I wouldn't change what I do for the world - every single day, I'm lucky to be doing what I'm doing."

"It's a big decision to pick what country I'm going to play for."

"I have always wanted to play for Aston Villa, so I am not going to sit there and think, 'I could have been there,' or whatever. The grass isn't always greener."

"I have to keep developing and progressing and strive to be as good a player as I can possibly be."

"I prefer advanced midfield, like a No. 10, but you know me: I'll play anywhere for Villa."

"Watch me, and I only really like the ball into feet. I don't like running in behind so much."

"I think the main thing about football is confidence."

"When me and my dad are walking down the road, sometimes we catch someone with Grealish on the back - sometimes it does bring a tear to my dad's eye."

"When you've got players like Carlos Sanchez, Fabian Delph, and Tom Cleverley behind you, it makes it easy with Christian Benteke and Gabby Agbonlahor in front of me."

"Playing for Villa, especially in front of the Holte End, is unbelievable. I love walking out and just looking at the Holte End."

"All I want to do is get on the pitch and perform, and hopefully, that will do the talking."

"I want to challenge myself. I'm desperate to play in the Premier League, and I want to play for England."