Books Quote by L. J. Smith

“A lot of aspiring writers quote the right people, but they do so like Mary Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. They quote Austen like…

— Douglas Wilson

“Jane Austen did not become one of the most renowned authors in the English language by having her characters dye their armpit hair and…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

“[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

“Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters. ”

— Mary Lascelles

“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

“I was convinced I felt as strongly about Jane Austen's books as Ashleigh had ever felt about any of her crazes, but my love…

— Polly Shulman

“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

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

— Seth Grahame-Smith

“Jane austen says: a heroine has pride despite her imperfections.”

— Patrice Hannon

Jane Austen is very amusing.

— James Callis

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

“She’d read all of Jane Austen that year—Austen was good, but when you told people you liked Pride and Prejudice, they expected you to…

— Emma Straub