Austen famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
-- A. N. Wilson -
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
-- Amy Waldman -
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.
-- Anna Quindlen -
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
-- Anne Stevenson -
What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?
-- Danielle Steel -
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
-- J. K. Rowling -
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
-- Julie Walters -
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
-- Karen Joy Fowler -
If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.
-- Frances O'Connor -
I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.
-- Whit Stillman -
There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.
-- JJ Feild