I always read Jane Austen during wars. Her complete lack…

One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

“I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.”

— Laurie Viera Rigler

If I hadn't read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn't know…

— Sebastian Faulks

I was a kid when I read Jane Eyre and fell in love with that universe. I didn't have the acumen to say the…

— Guillermo del Toro

“Learning became her. She loved the smell of the books, the shelves, the type on the pages, the sense that the world was an…

— Robert Goolrick

I would pretend when I was a child that I was Charlotte Brontë, because I'd read Jane Eyre when I was ten and, although…

— Jamaica Kincaid

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

“Off to sell Jane Austen to the masses.”

— Laurel Ann Nattress

[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

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

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

— Nichole Van

“[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

“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

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