Austen Quote by Amy Elizabeth Smith

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

— Leighton Meester

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“I am reading Ian Rankins book Doors Open and am enjoying his dark Edinburgh narrative will rate soon once I have read it. I…

— IAN RANKIN

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! – Jane Austen,…

— Julie Klassen

I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.

— Bret Easton Ellis

I got quite cross when I heard about Emma Thompson adapting 'Sense and Sensibility.' It was absolutely childish of me, but I thought, 'I…

— Andrew Davies

“Pride and Prejudice opens with one of the most famous sentences ever written: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in…

— Catherine Reef

“Perhaps there's something to be learnt from novels after all" - Mr Collins, Charlotte ~ Pride & Prejudice Continues.”

— Karen Aminadra

“Many of Jane Austen's admirers, it is true, read her novels as a means of escape into a cozy sort of Old English nirvana,…

— Susannah Carson

I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots so by…

— Stephen Dobyns

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

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“I was convinced I felt as strongly about Jane Austen's books as Ashleigh had ever felt about any of her crazes, but my love…

— Polly Shulman