Quotes of: Austen Keyword

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Virginia Woolf

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

Curtis Sittenfeld

Anyone who has read a Trollope novel knows that women did not have to wait until 1960 to feel trapped.

Cathleen Schine

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

Eleanor Catton

I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.

Emily Giffin

When did women whose looks are not their living start conducting themselves like the simpering inmates of an Ottoman empire seraglio?

Julie Burchill

Gender and race got very entwined in the 19th century, as abolition broke out, and then women wanted the right to speak about it.

Sue Monk Kidd

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!

Colum McCann

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Florence King

Some of the most thrilling things in life are done on impulse.

The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen

'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

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 to do.

Tamsin Egerton

His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.

Willie Morris

When a writer knows home in his heart, his heart must remain subtly apart from it.

Willie Morris

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

Calvin Trillin

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

George Saintsbury

In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama

Harper Lee

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.

Laura Marling

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.

Havelock Ellis

Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.

John Cusack

But no, I don't really like romantic comedies, so I don't really care. I never go see 'em.

John Cusack