Quotes of: Jane-austen Keyword

Jane Austen never repeats herself.

Jane Austen And Her Art

If I can't be in bed with Jack Hamma at least I can be in bed with Jane Austen

In Bed with Jane Austen

I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.

Naomie Harris

I would self-medicate with fat, carbohydrates, and Jane Austen, my number one drug of choice, my constant companion through every breakup, every disappointment, every crisis. Men might come and go, but Jane Austen was always there in sickness and in ...

Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

Jane Austen is very amusing.

James Callis

Few novelists can be more scrupulous than Jane Austen as to the phrasing of the thoughts of their characters.

Jane Austen And Her Art

Allegra's Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. If she'd worked in a bookstore, Allegra would have shelved Austen in the horror section.

The Jane Austen Book Club

Others beside Jane Austen have made their Eltons, though none quite so cooly as she.

Jane Austen And Her Art

In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.

Jane Austen And Her Art

Sympathy compounded of liking and compassion in varying proportions evidently seemed to Jane Austen the most natural inventive to imaginative interest in a character.

Jane Austen And Her Art

I've never got on very well with Jane Austen.

Anita Brookner

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

J. K. Rowling

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

J. K. Rowling

I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

A. N. Wilson

How to explain the sheer tingling joy one experiences when two interesting, complex, and occasionally aggravating characters have at last settled their misunderstandings and will live happily ever after, no matter what travails life might throw in th...

The Jane Austen Handbook: A Sensible Yet Elegant Guide to Her World

I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

Amy Waldman

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

I Capture the Castle

Jane Austen's narrative style seems to me to show (especially in the later novels) a curiously chameleon-like faculty; it varies in colour as the habits of expression of the several characters impress themselves on the relation of the episode in whic...

Jane Austen And Her Art

Words made you mighty. Words, stories, books: they could take you anywhere, and they could go out anywhere in the world. Jenny -- Jane -- picked up her pen, and began to write.

Young Jane Austen: Becoming a Writer

I once broke up with a boy because he wrote me an awful poem.

The Jane Austen Book Club

Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.

JJ Feild