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Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. Rowling
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There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.
JJ Feild
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Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
Julie Walters
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To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.
Mason Cooley
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What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?
Danielle Steel
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It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.
Terry Pratchett
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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
Dodie Smith
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After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.
Mary Ann Shaffer
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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.
Frances O'Connor
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If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question.
Stephenie Meyer
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All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.
Anna Quindlen
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I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
Anne Stevenson
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I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.
Whit Stillman
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I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. Wilson
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I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.
Mary McCarthy
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It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
Karen Joy Fowler