Books Quote by Vaishnavi Nair K Download Open image ““Oh no! No! Austen’s works merit each of their readings.”” — Vaishnavi Nair K ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Reading
“It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.” — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
“I always read Jane Austen during wars. Her complete lack of interest in Napoleon's activities has a soothingly insulating effect.” — Louise Andrews Kent Copy Share Image
“People don't say what they mean very often. You have to read between the lines of their behavior, of what they say, to get… — M.C. Frank Copy Share Image
“I cannot imagine a world in which one can read Jane Austen only once.” — Laurie Viera Rigler Copy Share Image
“A lot of aspiring writers quote the right people, but they do so like Mary Bennett in Pride and Prejudice. They quote Austen like… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
“(Jane Austen) is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Weber, in particular, could not start a conversation without mentioning the pitfalls of getting ideas above your station to end up working on… — Vaishnavi Nair K Copy Share Image
“You cannot take a chap in dislike, just ‘cause he is too good looking!” — Vaishnavi Nair K Copy Share Image
“Nina is a good girl, how did it not happen?” He asked mildly. What he meant to say was Mrs. Weber was a wily… — Vaishnavi Nair K Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
