Oh no! No! Austen’s works merit each of their readings.

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