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

— Lisa Lim

Jane Austen is very amusing.

— James Callis

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

— Mary Lascelles

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

— Virginia Woolf

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

“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.”…

— 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

“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

“Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.”

— Mary Lascelles

“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other habits of…

— Mary Lascelles

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

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

— Vaishnavi Nair K