Books Quote by Jane Austen

“But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their…

— Jane Austen

“She remembered her books in the moments of worst sorrow, especially the ones that were made for her and the one that saved her…

— Markus Zusak

“...all readings are provisional, and that maybe we read heroines for what we need from them at the time.”

— Samantha Ellis

“The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will…

— Leo Tolstoy

“People wandered in for books and conversation. They brought their stories to her, some bound, and some known by heart. She recognized some of…

— Louise Penny

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax

“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.”

— Alain de Botton

“I will never be able to read my mothers favourite books without thinking of her - an when I pass them on or recommend…

— Will Schwalbe

“Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most…

— John Fowles

“As an author, I breathe life into each and every character within the stories that I write. But it is the reader who gives…

— Scott Borgman

“It is possible for YA heroines to go an entire book without discussing their love lives.”

— Celine Kiernan

“I armed her against the censures of the world, shewed her that books were sweet unreproaching companions to the miserable, and that if they…

— Oliver Goldsmith