Fiona Quote by Kristin Walker

“Romantic novels had much to answer for.”

— Jayne Fresina

“I always read Jane Austen during wars. Her complete lack of interest in Napoleon's activities has a soothingly insulating effect.”

— Louise Andrews Kent

“she liked to laugh that a young widow who'd just come into a good fortune must be, to misquote Jane Austen, in want of…

— Jennifer Ashley

“Oh no! No! Austen’s works merit each of their readings.”

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.”

— Mary Lascelles

“Off to sell Jane Austen to the masses.”

— Laurel Ann Nattress

“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

“The man she wanted existed only in the romantic novels she was reading. She had met him. But he would never meet her.”

— Mary Papas

“The romantic is always intelligent, and I only meant to observe that although we have had foolish romantics, they don't count.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I felt like a Jane Austen heroine all of a sudden, confusedly looking on at all the people she loves, their myriad unpredictable couplings…

— Julie Powell

“Austen really had a thing against Marys.”

— Katherine Reay

“I don't want nice. I want sparks and fire. I want a romance novel. A Jane Austen movie. A fairy tale.”

— Riley of Shine and Shimmer Shari L. Tapscott