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“My nerves were wrapped so tight I could explode at any second. Some jaguar reciting poetry was not helping. “Just tell me which way…

— Lisa Kessler

“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 always read Jane Austen during wars. Her complete lack of interest in Napoleon's activities has a soothingly insulating effect.”

— Louise Andrews Kent

“I couldn't exactly blame Jane Austen for being a romantic. What the hell else was there to do back then for fun?”

— Kristin Walker

“But what troubled her was unutterable, and she could barely frame it for herself. Where he merely suffered conventional first-night nerves, she experienced a…

— Ian McEwan

“Jane Austen has taught me to view the ridiculous and rude with amusement rather than disdain.”

— Natalie Tyler

“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 the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.”

— Virginia Woolf

“And my own feelings? Shame. For I had lied. Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued Jane Eyre over…

— Diane Setterfield

Jane Austen is very amusing.

— James Callis

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

— Vaishnavi Nair K

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

— Mary Lascelles