Austen Quote by Frances O'Connor

The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a…

— Simon Schama

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

— Andrew Davies

“The celestial brightness of Pride and Prejudice is unequalled even in Jane Austen's other work; after a life of much disappointment and grief, in…

— Elizabeth Jenkins

It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s…

— Robert Silverberg

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

— Amy Waldman

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the…

— Amy Bloom

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to…

— Julian Barnes

“Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her…

— Jane Austen

“Does everybody know everything in this town!”

— Vaishnavi Nair K

[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the…

— Rebecca West

“...I thought he was the man I'd been waiting for. A hero right out of Austen. The one who would finally make everything okay.…

— Beth Pattillo

No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important…

— Sophie Hannah