Art Quote by Mark Twain

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

— Mark Twain

I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness…

— Cathleen Schine

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

— Mark Haddon

Books are absent teachers.

— Mortimer Adler

People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see very clearly…

— Nick Hornby

“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

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had…

— Jane Austen

“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 believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.

— Elena Ferrante

“No books!” I exclaimed. “How do you contrive to live here without them? if I may take the liberty to inquire. Though provided with…

— Michaela MacColl

It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.

— Alan Bennett

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

— W. H. Auden