Books Quote by Jennifer Rainey

“In this place called Hell novels are written by people who don't read books.”

— Andy Seven

“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

“Off to sell Jane Austen to the masses.”

— Laurel Ann Nattress

“Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.”

— Anonymous

Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have…

— Karen Joy Fowler

No good writer ever merely cheered us up. But there's an unblinking stare into the darkness of things we have to go elsewhere to…

— Howard Jacobson

“There’s something obscene in this love of the past which ends in breadlines and dugouts. Something obscene about this spiritual racket which permits an…

— Henry Miller

“When getting my nose in a book Cured most things short of school, It was worth ruining my eyes To know I could still…

— Philip Larkin

“Oh no! No! Austen’s works merit each of their readings.”

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle! I am awaked almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.” (Jane Austen)”

— Jane Austen

“Do not despair, little Alice. Only persist, and thou shalt see, Jane Austen's all in all to thee.”

— Fay Weldon