Books Quote by Lucinda Riley

“Did Jane Austen ruin lives by giving people false expectations about love? Were her heroes just too good to be true? Could a real…

— Victoria Connelly

“She’d never spent entire days lying on her bed reading, entire nights making up complicated stories in her head. She’d not dreamed of willing…

— Joanna Rakoff

“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

“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

“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who…

— Hope Nicholson

“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

“One could not but play for a moment with the thought of what might have happened if Charlotte Brontë had possessed say three hundred…

— Virginia Woolf

“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

“Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman — almost a bride, was a cold, solitary girl again: her life was pale; her…

— Charlotte Brontë

“For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all…

— Anna Quindlen

“We are always sure that the heroine is fiery and passionate, which is quite an achievement when the plot has had to keep her…

— Ian Gregor

“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