Quotes About Austen

Like in those Bunny Austen books you read where rabbits live in great parks with manor hutches?

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

First and foremost, Austen was sensible. She didn't feed her romantic imagination to excess.

The bar was, in fact, a library. A place Dickens would have been comfortable in. Where Conan Doyle might have found a useful volume. Where Jane Austen could sit and read. And get drunk, if she wanted.

Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky does) in his wild state before he has been domesticated. Her men and women are essentially men and women of the fireside.

Sono gli stessi gradini dai quali Jane Austen fa cadere Louisa Musgrove in Persuasione . Come è romantico. Gli uomini erano romantici... allora.

we may indeed assume, with a high degree of probability, that Jane Austen went commando.

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a gothic tone to it.

I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other habits of expression, repelled Charlotte Brontë, and has alienated other readers, conscious with a dissatisfaction with her style that they have not cared to analyse.

Jane austen says: a heroine has pride despite her imperfections.