There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot…

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

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

— Andrew Davies

“The celestial brightness of Pride and Prejudice is unequalled even in Jane Austen's other work; after a life of much disappointment and grief, in…

— Elizabeth Jenkins

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

Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy's heart beat for her, 'Pride and Prejudice' would barely have made it into a short story. Their…

— Mariella Frostrup

“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's…

— William Deresiewicz

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

“You know, somewhere a Jane Austen angel just lost her wings over you saying that.”

— Nichole Van

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

“Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her…

— Jane Austen

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could…

— Georgia King

“I don't care a whit for Society. I think people should only marry someone who can offer them some bit of affection. I am…

— Harper St. George

“Does everybody know everything in this town!”

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of what they say, to get…

— M.C. Frank