Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles. — Tracy Chevalier Copy Share Image
Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her. — Jane Gardam Copy Share Image
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life . I don't have the courage to read it, though. I'm… — Katherine Reay Copy Share Image
I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But as Austen delineates so clearly, you can't stop people from making assumptions if they're so inclined. You can only do your… — Amy Elizabeth Smith Copy Share Image
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“How easily such a thing can become a mania, how the most normal and sensible of women once this passion to be… — Kathryn Hurn Copy Share Image
What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they? — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and… — Dodie Smith Copy Share Image
To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be… — Bruce Feirstein Copy Share Image
I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really… — JJ Feild Copy Share Image
I do like the idea of the novel of repressed college students being a contemporary novel of courtship! I guess what I… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I read "Pride and Prejudice" [by Jane Austen]. I was gobsmacked by it - it's so funny and so modern. Unbelievable. You… — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of… — Cathleen Schine Copy Share Image
All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
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