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Writer Quotes by Jane Austen

53 Writer quotes by Jane Austen

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A quote about being tormented for years to read shows how much value is placed on books. Another line declares that reading never tires, even when other things do. The collection also notes that a well‑written book feels too short, hinting at a love for endless stories.

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“I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.”

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I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

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How can you contrive to write so even?

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With a book he was regardless of time.

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“[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

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My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

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“I am not a great reader and I have pleasure in many things.”

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but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short.

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When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library.

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“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able…

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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.

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Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.

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“By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I…

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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!”

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“...And if reading could banish the idea for even half an hour, it was something gained.”

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Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

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“And books! ...she would buy them all over and over again; she would buy up every copy, I believe, to prevent their…

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“My dear," replied her husband, "I have two small favours to request. First, that you will allow me the free use of…

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“She read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so…

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“Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the…

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“In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with…

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If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great…

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“…how good Mrs. West could have written such books and collected so many hard works, with all her family cares, is still…

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. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection,…

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“I have formed my plan, and am determined to enter on a course of serious study. Our own library is too well…

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I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if…

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Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are…

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“Perhaps you are not sitting in this room, and I am not sitting by you. These are points in which a doubt…

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“Even in my profession how little the art of reading has been studied! how little a clear manner, and good delivery, have…

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“I am no novel-reader—I seldom look into novels—Do not imagine that I often read novels—It is really very well for a novel.”…

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“If a book is well written i would find it too short.”

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“If a book is well written, I always find it too short.”

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“If a book is well written,I always find it to short.”

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“I will not allow books to prove anything.”

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I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.

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A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

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“My style of writing is very different from yours.”

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“They found Mr. Bennet still up. With a book he was regardless of time;...”

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And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.

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I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy

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