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“Jane austen says: a heroine has pride despite her imperfections.”

— Patrice Hannon

“Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.”

— Mary Lascelles

“How to explain the sheer tingling joy one experiences when two interesting, complex, and occasionally aggravating characters have at last settled their misunderstandings and…

— Margaret C. Sullivan

“Austen's works have endured because she had a superb narrative technique and a gift for creating characters who feel as real as life itself.…

— Syrie James

“Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.”

— Shannon Hale

“I couldn't exactly blame Jane Austen for being a romantic. What the hell else was there to do back then for fun?”

— Kristin Walker

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

“Pride and Prejudice opens with one of the most famous sentences ever written: "It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in…

— Catherine Reef

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! – Jane Austen,…

— Julie Klassen

“The visible structure of Jane Austen's stories may be flimsy enough; but their foundations drive deep down into the basic principles of human conduct.…

— David Cecil

“Did Jane Austen ruin lives by giving people false expectations about love? Were her heroes just too good to be true? Could a real…

— Victoria Connelly

“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson