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“Austen really had a thing against Marys.”

— Katherine Reay

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Vaishnavi Nair K

“There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.” (Jane Austen)”

— Jane Austen

“I couldn't exactly blame Jane Austen for being a romantic. What the hell else was there to do back then for fun?”

— Kristin Walker

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

— Mary Lascelles

“Jane Austen? I feel that I am approaching dangerous ground. The reputation of Jane Austen is surrounded by cohorts of defenders who are ready…

— Arnold Bennett

“In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama”

— Harper Lee

“Jane Austen has taught me to view the ridiculous and rude with amusement rather than disdain.”

— Natalie Tyler

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." ~ Jane Austen”

— Lisa Lim

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

— Richard Curtis

“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