Austen Quote by Whit Stillman Download Open image “I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.” — Whit Stillman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Austen Coming home Cows Home I can Jane
Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
“Do not speak unflatteringly of Jane," Flora said, walking beside Chad. "She is the greatest writer to have ever lived." "I thought that was… — Krista McGee Copy Share Image
I think it's really good and helpful to have the people you most admire in some other discipline than what you work in. It's… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
For me, the present is a golden era. That's the greatest golden era. Right now. I just like pining for lost times. — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I decided the moment I graduated from college that I would never wear blue jeans again. And I have never worn blue jeans again. — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I find it really disturbing to be watching a lot of the medium that I'm trying to work in. I prefer to be doing… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I think a lot of ["Cosmopolitans"] is marked by [Jerome David] Salinger. Salinger wouldn't allow his works to be adapted for film after his… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I explained to Amazon that I don't like outlining or projecting what something's going to be. I like to allow a story to arise… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I would say on the other side of the equation that there were really some massive sales and massive enthusiasm for some films that… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
It becomes a lot better for the actors when we're 'shooting, shooting, shooting,' instead of waiting around in a trailer for something to happen. — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Find someone hypersocial and crazy and try not to follow them to their doom, but to make friends with their nicer friends. — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
It's terrible to write what are essentially comedies for people with no sense of humor. Everyone thinks they have a sense of humor, but… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
I've had no money, absolutely, from my family. They paid for a good education - or schools that purported to be a good education… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
The difficulty with poetry is that it doesn't have the life that Shakespeare or Jane Austen have beyond the page. You can't make a… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s… — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Gratitude, not merely for having once loved her, but for loving her still well enough, to forgive all the petulance and acrimony of her… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“...I thought he was the man I'd been waiting for. A hero right out of Austen. The one who would finally make everything okay.… — Beth Pattillo Copy Share Image
No highbrow literary type would ever say 'Moby Dick' is good but it's just about a whale, or a Jane Austen would be important… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
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