Jane Austen Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

  Jane Austen

  Inspiring, Writing, Long

  Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.157, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

• I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

  Jane Austen

  Writing

  "Jane Austen's Letters".

• I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

  Jane Austen

  Art, Writing, Paper

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.71, Oxford University Press

• I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, People, Laughing

  Jane Austen, Penelope Hughes-Hallett (1991). “My dear Cassandra: the letters of Jane Austen”, Clarkson N Potter Publishers

• My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Style

• Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Suspense, Ends

  Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.379

• It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Practice, Style

  Jane Austen (2012). “Northanger Abbey”, p.12, Courier Corporation

• And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Aunt, Letters

  Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.243, BookBaby

• I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Effort, Style

  Jane Austen (1906). “Letters”

• Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, People, Mouths

  Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.289, Oxford University Press

• How can you contrive to write so even?

  Jane Austen

  Writing

  Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.48, FV Éditions

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