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Austen Quotes by Dodie Smith
- How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
- But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting…
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- Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me… — Meg Cabot
- Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue… — Elizabeth Bowen
- She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or… — E. M. Delafield
- Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life. — Edward Abbey
- If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran… — Roddy Doyle
- The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know,… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn… — Gillian Flynn
- There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote nothing like… — Margaret Drabble
- Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that… — Leslie Fiedler
- Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or… — Ronald Blythe
- To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be… — Bruce Feirstein
- Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. — George Saintsbury