Austen Quote by Karen Joy Fowler Download Open image “Each of us has a private Austen.” — Karen Joy Fowler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Austen Funny Inspirational Love
After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
“...all the great issues in human life make their appearance on Jane Austen's narrow stage. True, it's only the stage of petty domestic circumstance,… — ian watt Copy Share Image
“Austen's works have endured because she had a superb narrative technique and a gift for creating characters who feel as real as life itself.… — Syrie James Copy Share Image
“There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Eudora Welty singles out for praise Austen's "habit of seeing both sides of her own subject - of seeing it indeed in the round".… — Emily Auerbach Copy Share Image
In general, librarians enjoyed special requests. A reference librarian is someone who likes the chase. When librarians read for pleasure, they often pick a… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
The sunset you see is always better than the one you don’t. More stars are always better than less. — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Je zou maar slecht over hem gaan denken en dat wil ik niet, want dat is mijn taak” — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
I'm unclear on the definition of person the courts have been using. Something that sieves out dolphins but lets corporations slide on through. — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“The secret to a good life,” he told me once, “is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you’re… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“So many problems, however infinitely varied they first appear, turn out to be matters of money. I can't tell you how much this offends… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“The world runs,” Lowell said, “on the fuel of this endless, fathomless misery. People know it, but they don’t mind what they don’t see.… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“I didn't want a world in which I had to choose between blind human babies and tortured monkey ones. To be frank, that's the… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“They never reminisced about the time they had to drive halfway back to Indianapolis because I’d left Dexter Poindexter, my terry-cloth penguin (threadbare, ravaged… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“Here is my objection to submarines and space travel: not enough windows. What difference does it make if you're in outer space or underwater,… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
. . . strange and fantastic things really happen. During a rainstorm in Australia, fish fall from the sky; several Southern states consider legislation… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“...I thought he was the man I'd been waiting for. A hero right out of Austen. The one who would finally make everything okay.… — Beth Pattillo Copy Share Image
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image