Able Quote by Julie Walters

“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.”

— Stella Gibbons

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

— Mark Haddon

It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex,…

— Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance…

— Tamsin Egerton

“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

“You know, there was a time when childbirth was possibly the most terrifying thing you could do in your life, and you were literally…

— Stephenie Meyer

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

— J. K. Rowling

“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

Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

“At college, I was told there were four great women novelists in the 19th century – Jane Austen, George Eliot, Charlotte and Emily Brontë.…

— Jeanette Winterson

Jane Austen is very amusing.

— James Callis

Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.

— Deanna Raybourn