Austen Quote by J. K. Rowling Download Open image “I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.” — J. K. Rowling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Austen Fame Famous writers Jane Would be Writing
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“I'd known since girlhood that I wanted to be a book editor. By high school, I'd pore over the acknowledgments section of novels I… — Bridie Clark Copy Share Image
If I wrote down all the things I imagined that would happen in my life, I would've been an amazing author.. — Sachithra Copy Share Image
I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them. — Michael Palin Copy Share Image
I'd wanted to be a writer since I was knee-high. Once I knew that books were written by people and didn't just happen, it… — Jon Spaihts Copy Share Image
Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
“I'll join you when Hell freezes over," said Neville. "Dumbledore's Army!" he shouted, and there was an answering cheer from the crowd, whom Voldemort's… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
What's the worst that could happen? Everyone turned me down; big deal. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I don't think there's any harm at all in allowing a kid to fantasize. In fact, I think to stop people from fantasizing is… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. — Amy Waldman Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
“...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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
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