"My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane……" — Joyce Carol Oates

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• Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It… — Meg Cabot
• Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it… — Elizabeth Bowen
• She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen,… — E. M. Delafield
• Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life. — Edward Abbey
• If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening… — Roddy Doyle
• The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
• I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane… — Gillian Flynn
• There are some writers who wrote too much. There are others who wrote enough. There are yet others who wrote… — Margaret Drabble
• Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no… — Leslie Fiedler
• Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle,… — Ronald Blythe
• To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune… — Bruce Feirstein
• Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. — George Saintsbury

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