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Quotes About Jane

My guess was that the jobs were being added specifically in the GTA
~ Jane Jacobs
Taylor adjusted her red and brown striped scarf around her neck, trying in vain to block the wind.
~ Jane Porter
Magic is the beingness behind and within all things. Jane Roberts via Oversoul Seven's Little Book, The Charmed Life, Oversoul Seven Trilogy
~ Jane Roberts Seth
the novel is, above all, an intense experience of prolonged intimacy with another consciousness. But
~ Jane Smiley
you, Frankie. I just don't. You look like an angel, so
~ Jane Smiley
A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'
~ Jane Lindskold
I enjoy the medium of film, and I think I understand it well, and I like working with directors, so yeah, I think I'll stick with this.
~ Jane Goldman
Queen Jane Seymour's epitaph, inscribed in Latin, translated roughly to: Here lies Jane, a phoenix Who died in giving another phoenix birth, Let her be mourned, for birds like these Are rare indeed.
~ Leslie Carroll
The following day, the Lord Treasurer demanded all of the jewels and finery he had so obsequiously bestowed upon Jane not ten days earlier, then went through Jane and Guildford's possessions like a repo man.
~ Leslie Carroll
Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.
~ Jane Green
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
~ Will Self
Jane says, 'He asked me if I would be his good mistress.' They exchange glances. There is a difference between a mistress and a good mistress: does Jane know that? The first implies concubinage. The second, something less immediate: an exchange of tokens, a chaste and languorous admiration, a prolonged courtship…
~ Hilary Mantel
Jane saw that Madeline's feelings about Jane's baking were similar to Jane's feelings about Madeline's accessories: confused admiration for an exotic behavior.
~ Liane Moriarty
Jane felt that strange lurch she sometimes experienced when she got distracted by her life, and then something (it was often Ziggy) made her remember just in time the appropriate way for a nice, ordinary, well-mannered grown-up to behave.
~ Liane Moriarty
Lee stood in front of the class the first day and said, "Anybody who makes fun of romance fiction is making fun of Jane Austen, and anybody who makes fun of Jane Austen answers to me." Why yes, I would walk across broken glass for that man. Why do you ask?
~ Jennifer Crusie
I probably am more shy than people realize. But I'm shy when I leave a studio and I am just myself.
~ Jane Pauley
Jane--it's history, all this. I say that I have always thought history to be of great relevance.
~ Penelope Lively
Charming!" cries Mrs. Maloney. "How delightful!" exclaims Miss Dove. "I do adore Jane!" Mrs. Ovens declares. Several other ladies admit to a like partiality for Miss Austen and urge Miss Clutterbuck to begin.
~ D.E. Stevenson
Fortunately... 'With Fi and Jane' features BBC veterans Fi Glover and Jane Garvey sitting in the BBC cafe, nattering about whatever interests them.
~ David Hepworth
It is for your daughter," she said. "For Jane. To sit on. She seems not to have a seat of her own but she must borrow mine." There
~ Philippa Gregory
it was clear to Jane that Sara, in spite of her intelligence and fortitude, had internalized those words and could not bleach them from the stained self-image with which Simon had left her.
~ Dean Koontz
I started out working as a script editor and storyliner.
~ Jane Fallon
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
~ J. K. Rowling
Here's to Mulberry Jane She made jam when she came Somebody cut off her feet Now jelly rolls in the street.
~ Lou Reed