Austen Quote by Jane Gardam

“Jane Austen never repeats herself.”

— Mary Lascelles

“I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.”

— Laurie Viera Rigler

I've never got on very well with Jane Austen.

— Anita Brookner

“It is not accidental that the most unsympathetic characters in Austen's novels are those who are incapable of genuine dialogue with others. They rant.…

— Azar Nafisi

“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's…

— William Deresiewicz

“In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.”

— Mary Lascelles

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

— Karen Joy Fowler

“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." ~ Jane Austen”

— Lisa Lim

“Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.”

— Shannon Hale

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard…

— Julie Walters

One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.

— William F. Buckley, Jr