I've always loved Jane Austen's writing.

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

— Mark Haddon

“I consider Anne of Green Gables to be a mentor, Jane Austen to be a writing hero, and the Bard a fellow name freak…

— Lorilee Craker

As a kid, I really loved 'Jane Eyre,' I used to fantasise that the past was so much better and my lifetime was crap.

— Romola Garai

If you look at my personal library, you will notice that it ranges from Henry James to Steig Larsson, from Margaret Atwood to Max…

— Chris Bohjalian

Am I overjoyed when somebody says, 'Oh, we're going to do another Jane Austen?' No - because there's never anything in it for me.

— Art Malik

I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, 'Oh, Lord.…

— Rose McGowan

Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.

— Gugu Mbatha-Raw

I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

— Maggie Grace

What I'd love to do would be to bring a person from the past to me. In that case I'd pick Jane Austen, because…

— Jo Beverley

I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important…

— Sophie Hannah

When I was in my twenties, I strongly identified with Jane Austen's 'Emma' - her human failings mixed with a desire to do good.

— Amanda Foreman

[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the…

— Rebecca West

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

— Andrew Davies

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