Books Quote by Jane Austen Download Open image ““The novels which I approve are such as display human nature with grandeur”” — Jane Austen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Human nature Nature
“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books. They impress us with the conviction, that one nature wrote… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Novels can tell us so much about life. They have the power to enrich our own lives in so many different ways. They're not… — Victoria Connelly Copy Share Image
“I read novels with the utmost pertinaity. I look upon them - I look upon good novels - as a very valuable part of… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
A great novelist must open the reader's heart, allow the reader to remember the vastness and glory -- and shame and shabbiness -- of… — Carolyn See Copy Share Image
“That's the pleasure and challenge of reading great novels; you get to see yourself as others see you and you get to see others… — John Green Copy Share Image
“novels have the power to transport you into another existence, and see the world from a different point of view.” — Ella Berthoud Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“...an irresistible of why we read and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“I think long and carefully about what novels ought to do. They should clarify the roles that have become obscured; they ought to identify… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Novels expose man to the nuances of life through the thought process of their protagonists to form the foundation for its understanding and thus… — B.S. Murthy Copy Share Image
This Is Not a Novel memorializes the treasures and detritus of one man's singularly cultured mind. (...) If you don't know Writer's work at… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“How earnestly did she then wish that her former opinions had been more reasonable, more moderate!” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“it is very well worth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Everybody is taken in at some period or another. [...] In marriage especially. [...] There is not one in a hundred of either sex,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“…for I look upon the Frasers to be about as unhappy as most other married people.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I must tell you what you will not ask, though I may wish it unsaid the next moment” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
