Quotes of: Austen Keyword

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

Gail Sheehy

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

Jeff Greenfield

I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

Kevin Powers

Sometimes the closer we got to a situation, the less clear it looked.

Wally Lamb

I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.

Sue Monk Kidd

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had fini...

Jane Austen's Letters

Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol....

The Sense and Sensibility Screenplay and Diaries: Bringing Jane Austen's Novel to Film

But neither could compare with the gargantuan natural edifice that was the mountain upon which Nachtstürm Castle rose. It was a mountain made of the darkness between two lightning bolts. It was made less of earth than Stygian frost. Whole towns fell...

Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel

Savannah is amazing with the town squares and the hanging moss and the French Colonial houses. It's brutally romantic.

David Morrissey

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard, are sweeter

Ode on a Grecian Urn and Other Poems

Women are in positions of power the most radical of activists could only dream of in 1960.

Cathleen Schine

At home I have big vats of cabbage soup that I make to slim down.

Jilly Cooper

I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.

Piers Anthony

Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

E. W. Howe

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

Stephen Hunter

I think the American West really attracts me because it's romantic. The desert, the empty space, the drama.

Ang Lee

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano De Crescenzo

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

Rashida Jones

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.

Anne Stevenson

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

Ann Beattie

The Catholic men are more upset about women not being able to be priests than are Catholic women.

Andrew Greeley