Jane Austen Quotes

63 Jane Austen quotes by 52 unique authors

The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under the exactingly careful… — Steve Donoghue
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not… — Leslie Fiedler
Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen. — Mark Haddon
I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. The bread and butter of British… — Tom Hiddleston
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of. — Julie Walters
I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table. — A. N. Wilson
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but… — Mark Twain
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the… — Rebecca Solnit
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
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
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
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

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