Austen Quotes

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

I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.

There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.

To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.

Each of us has a private Austen.

I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.

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

I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.

It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.

One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.

What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?

It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.

How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!

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.

If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question.

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

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

I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.