Austen Quote by Anna Quindlen

I've always loved Jane Austen's writing.

— Lily Collins

Jane Austen is one of my all-time favourites.

— Claudia Winkleman

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

— J. K. Rowling

I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on…

— E. M. Forster

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Tamsin Egerton

One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened…

— Alessandra Stanley

Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so…

— Roger Ebert

“Do not speak unflatteringly of Jane," Flora said, walking beside Chad. "She is the greatest writer to have ever lived." "I thought that was…

— Krista McGee

“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's…

— William Deresiewicz

No good writer ever merely cheered us up. But there's an unblinking stare into the darkness of things we have to go elsewhere to…

— Howard Jacobson

Jane Austen is very amusing.

— James Callis