Quotes of: Austen Keyword

Whenever I'm doing anything romantic with an actor, or if there's a director around, I never want anybody's wife to feel threatened by me.

Julianne Moore

I'm probably a bit romantic about it, but I think we humans miss having contact with fire. We need it.

Jamie Oliver

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

Richard Paul Evans

I have always been a romantic, one of those people who believes that a woman in pink circus tights contains all the secrets of the universe.

Tom Robbins

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

Jane Leavy

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

Curtis Sittenfeld

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

Curtis Sittenfeld

My first job was when I was about 12, cleaning houses in the afternoons for different elderly women in town. I hated it.

Elizabeth Strout

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.

Kate Braverman

Stewardesses were a joke to many of us coming of age in the liberated Sixties. They were no joke in the women's movement that liberated us, however.

Cathleen Schine

Writing novels is not an illness that need be recovered from. It is my work; it is what I do.

The Persuasion of Miss Jane Austen

Do not ignore dreams. They are a line from the past to the future. All nightmares are real.

Two Serpents Rise

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Darling, in this family we don't call anyone a novelist who has not written more books than Jane Austen.

Pansy Schneider-Horst

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.

Mark Twain

I'd rather rot on my own floor than be found by a bunch of bingo players in a nursing home.

Florence King

Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city.

Rabindranath Maharaj

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

Alex Berenson

There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.

Antony Beevor

My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.

Joyce Carol Oates