Austen Quotes

83 Austen quotes by 65 unique authors

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most… — Virginia Woolf
I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
How is it that, a full two centuries after Jane Austen finished her manuscript, we come to the world of Pride and Prejudice and find… — Anna Quindlen
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 the… — E. M. Forster
Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles. — Tracy Chevalier
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel! — Dodie Smith
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… — Dodie Smith
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all… — Ian Mcewan
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. — Anna Quindlen
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding. — Karen Joy Fowler
As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents. — Philip Pullman
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing. — Terry Pratchett
After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. — Mary Ann Shaffer
Who would not spout the family teapot in order to talk with Keats for an hour about poetry, or with Jane Austen about the art… — Virginia Woolf
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool as that. But if one is… — C.S. Lewis
There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a… — Margaret Drabble
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom
All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough for… — Mary Ann Shaffer
I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in tone,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964 — Harper Lee
Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen. — Deanna Raybourn
And I love Jane Austen's use of language too--the way she takes her time to develop a phrase and gives it room to grow, so… — Andrew Clements
What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they? — Danielle Steel
Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me. — Anna Quindlen
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine… — Jeffrey Eugenides

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