Austen Quote by Mark Twain

Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

— Mark Twain

“There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we…

— Alain de Botton

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

— Dodie Smith

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

— Vaishnavi Nair K

People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the…

— Azar Nafisi

If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question.

— Stephenie Meyer

“It is not accidental that the most unsympathetic characters in Austen's novels are those who are incapable of genuine dialogue with others. They rant.…

— Azar Nafisi

“Many of Jane Austen's admirers, it is true, read her novels as a means of escape into a cozy sort of Old English nirvana,…

— Susannah Carson

“I care with the brightened curiosity of one who loves a subject for no rational reason, but who loves it nonetheless and prodigally. This…

— Lyanda Lynn Haupt

“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

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

No good writer ever merely cheered us up. But there's an unblinking stare into the darkness of things we have to go elsewhere to…

— Howard Jacobson