Written on the mirror, revealed by the steam, were the…

Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes…

— Phyllis Bottome

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a…

— Simon Schama

I'm pretty plain Jane. Pretty vanilla.

— Corey Seager

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

— Andrew Davies

I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.

— Taye Diggs

“I look like Barbara Bush in drag." Aunt Jettie”

— Molly Harper

I'm in love with mary jane. she's my main thing. she makes me feel alright. she makes my heart sing. and when I'm feeling…

— Rick James

It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s…

— Robert Silverberg

Jane Lynch is the nicest person I've ever worked with.

— Josie Totah

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

— Amy Waldman

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the…

— Amy Bloom

“She was breathtaking in her beauty and her human spirit, he thought, unable to speak as he gazed upon her. Hers was the sort…

— Charlotte Featherstone

To Jane Jacob’s three traditional urban values of civic space, human scale and diversity, the current environmental imperative adds two more: conservation and regionalism.

— Peter Calthorpe

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to…

— Julian Barnes

There is a white girl from Australia that spits in an Australian accent, and her name is Chelsea Jane. That I can get into.…

— Rah Digga