Jane austen Quote by Krista McGee

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the…

— Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like…

— Anna Quindlen

“It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.”

— Richard Curtis

“Jane Austen, who is said to be Shakespearian, never reminds us of Shakespeare, I think, in her full-dress portraits, but she does so in…

— A.C. Bradley

Jane Austen is one of my all-time favourites.

— Claudia Winkleman

I've always loved Jane Austen's writing.

— Lily Collins

“(Jane Austen) is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.”

— Virginia Woolf

“[Jane] Austen was not a novelist for nothing: she knew that our stories are what make us human, and that listening to someone else's…

— William Deresiewicz

“People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of what they say, to get…

— M.C. Frank

I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on…

— E. M. Forster

Jane Austen is very amusing.

— James Callis

Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so…

— Roger Ebert