Convinced Quote by Jane Austen

The world was hers for the reading.

— Betty Smith

“The young woman had read a good many novels, and she had seen a good many films; this education by newspaper, serial and film…

— Maurice Renard

“She drew the line at television. It took no effort to watch – it was infinitely more beneficial to the soul, and to the…

— John Irving

“She was very easy to please, because she took joy in the smallest things, but exacting, too, because that small thing must be authentic,…

— Peter Heller

“I felt there was a lot I needed to teach her. I wanted to give her an early grounding in the basics of arithmetic…

— Jeannette Walls

“By the time the lecture ended and the audience awoke, she had built up a splendid fortune for herself (not the first founded on…

— Louisa May Alcott

“ Why , instead of teaching her poetry and drama and needlework, had her governesses not taught the most important lesson anyone could learn…

— Mary Balogh

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way…

— James M. Cain

“She quickly realized she had an affinity for the older books and their muted scents of past dinners and foreign countries, the tea and…

— Erica Bauermeister

“She has a fund of good sense and observation which, as a companion, makes her infinitely superior to thousands of those who having only…

— Jane Austen

“Do you know my absolute favorite story about the author of The Age of Innocence ? It’s that she did all of her writing,…

— Jennifer Wright

She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.

— Agatha Christie