Austen Quotes · Page 6

I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.

— Emma Donoghue

Jane Austen is the feminine Peter Pan of letters. She never grew up.

— George Sampson

You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But…

— Anonymous

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

— Edward Abbey

[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The…

— Denis Dutton

Think of anybody - Dostoevsky or Jane Austen - [their work] was always something that now we would call political. So I…

— Toni Morrison

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

— Karen Joy Fowler

When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know…

— Mark Twain

Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have…

— Tamsin Egerton

Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a…

— Cathleen Schine

[Henry] James is much more complex than Jane Austen. That's why it's not so easy to adapt him. People expect a nice…

— Agnieszka Holland

I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in…

— Peter Greenaway

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize…

— Mark Twain

The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under…

— Steve Donoghue

It's a different thing to write a love story now than in the time of Jane Austen, Eliot, or Tolstoy. One of…

— Mona Simpson

Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people…

— Anna Quindlen

Look at Austen. In her novels, you get a dance, followed by an encounter, followed by a letter, then a period of…

— Colm Toibin

“...all the great issues in human life make their appearance on Jane Austen's narrow stage. True, it's only the stage of petty…

— ian watt

If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question.

— Stephenie Meyer

I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.

— Howard Jacobson

People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so…

— Azar Nafisi

I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.

— Whit Stillman

For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that…

— Rebecca Solnit