Austen Quote by Seth Grahame-Smith

I am at a loss to understand why people hold Miss Austen's novels at so high a rate, which seem to me vulgar in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Mary Lascelles

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

Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

— Ronald Blythe

“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

I think I made a mistake with [Jane] Austen by reading all six in a row. There are similarities to the plots so by…

— Stephen Dobyns

We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.

— Georges Simenon

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

— J. K. Rowling

It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance…

— Tamsin Egerton

“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 had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.”

— Shannon Hale