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- Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating
- 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.
More Jane Austen Quotes
- 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
- Sometimes, love hurts. The abrasions of love have inspired many a great writer. From Shakespeare to Jane Austen, writers have at some… — Zoheb
- I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen. — Mary McCarthy
- I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought,… — Rose McGowan
- Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they… — Terry Eagleton
- I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize… — Mark Twain
- Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she… — Virginia Woolf
- How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel! — Dodie Smith