Austen Quote by Margaret Drabble

I think Jane Austen is like Shakespeare, in a slightly different way. I think people will continue to revisit these stories because they remain…

— Josh O'Connor

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do…

— Julie Taymor

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

— Seth Grahame-Smith

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

— Vaishnavi Nair K

You want to suggest something new, but at the same time, resolve the drama of the action in the novel.

— Michael Ondaatje

“...all the great issues in human life make their appearance on Jane Austen's narrow stage. True, it's only the stage of petty domestic circumstance,…

— ian watt

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other…

— Nathalie Sarraute

“Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was what it…

— David Lodge

Am I overjoyed when somebody says, 'Oh, we're going to do another Jane Austen?' No - because there's never anything in it for me.

— Art Malik

“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

. . . usually, the biggest problems of adapting plays into screenplays is that they stick too close to the play, and I think…

— Arthur Miller

“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