Writing Quotes by Jane Austen

How can you contrive to write so even?

— Jane Austen

“How ill I have written. I begin to hate myself.”

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

“Every body at all addicted to letter writing, without having much to say, which will include a large proportion of the female…

— Jane Austen

“Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.”

— Jane Austen

“I write only to bid you Farewell. The spell is removed; I see you as you are.”

— Jane Austen

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

— Jane Austen

I could not sit down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life.

— Jane Austen

“As far as I have had opportunity of judging, it appears to me that the usual style of letter-writing among women is…

— Jane Austen

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one…

— Jane Austen

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing,…

— Jane Austen

“I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little writing…

— Jane Austen

“Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. — It is not fair. — He has fame and profit…

— Jane Austen

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should…

— Jane Austen

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as…

— Jane Austen

“Every line, every word was -- in the hackneyed metaphor which their dear writer, were she here, would forbid -- a dagger…

— Jane Austen

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so…

— Jane Austen

“Whether she thought of him so much, while she drank her warm wine and water, and prepared herself for bed, as to…

— Jane Austen

“Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in…

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

“...she ventured to recommend a larger allowance of prose in his daily study; and on being requested to particularise, mentioned such works…

— Jane Austen

I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very…

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

“he shewed himself so intimately acquainted with all the tenderest songs of the one poet, and all the impassioned descriptions of hopeless…

— Jane Austen

“They danced again, and when the assembly closed, parted, on the lady’s side at least, with a strong inclination for continuing the…

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

— Jane Austen

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

— Jane Austen