Austen Quote by Julie Walters

If you view history as a backdrop, set-dressing or fiction, then 'Pride and Prejudice' is hugely entertaining. My reread saw the misery of the…

— Sara Pascoe

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful -…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! – Jane Austen,…

— Julie Klassen

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“When I was a kid, I just read and read. We were lucky enough to have gone to England and had a whole bunch…

— Franny Billingsley

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I actually find novels that are determined to be funny at every turn quite oppressive.

— Ian Mcewan

Jane Austen is very amusing.

— James Callis

I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could…

— Georgia King

I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness…

— Cathleen Schine

I've always loved Jane Austen's writing.

— Lily Collins

Almost all comedy is of its time. You can't expect audiences now to laugh at what amused people 60 years ago.

— Denis Norden