Austen Quotes - Page 5

• With impeccable prose, dry wit, and uncommon wisdom, Ted Thompson brings to life one family's painful disappointments and powerful resilience. The Land of Steady Habits combines Austen's shrewd mastery of domestic economics with Updike's compassion for the melancholy commuter to make something elegant, fresh, and brilliant.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Powerful, Disappointment, Compassion

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• I did a cover for Rolling Stone the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I thought, "Oh, Lord. I'm never going to be Jane Austen in a film now!" 'Cause that's what I'd really like to do.

  Rose McGowan

  Crazy, Rolling, Stones

  "Grindhouse Interview: Rose Mcgowan". IGN Interview, www.ign.com. April 5, 2007.

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• The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of being a famous writer, and again there's a slight disconnect with reality which happens a lot with me. I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reality, Interesting, Would Be

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• I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.

  Gillian Flynn

  Reading, Party, Men

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.243, Broadway Books

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• Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

  Ronald Blythe

  Drama, Battle, Facts

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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

  Passionate, Bronte, Jane

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.

  Amy Waldman

  Mash Up, Taste, Kind

  "Paperback Q&A: Amy Waldman on The Submission". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2012.

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

  Danielle Steel

  Ready, Jane, Dickens

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• Jane Austen may not be the best writer, but she certainly writes about the best people. And by that I mean people just like me.

  Anna Quindlen

  Writing, Mean, People

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• Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Reading, Men, Hands

  "The Marriage Plot: A Novel". Book by Jeffrey Eugenides, 2011.

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• I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.

  Robin Wasserman

  Ever After, Charming, Delusion

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• Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I thought, looking at Antony and Cleopatra; and when people compare Shakespeare and Jane Austen, they may mean that the minds of both had consumed all impediments; and for that reason we do not know Jane Austen and we do not know Shakespeare, and for that reason Jane Austen pervades every word that she wrote, and so does Shakespeare.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hate, Writing, Mean

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “A Room of One's Own and Three Guineas”, p.111, OUP Oxford

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• Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Character, Writing, Mistress

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• Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Bed, Cadavers

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• All of women's stories in the 19th century had either one of two endings: you either had the good Jane Austen marriage at the end and you were happy; or you had the terrible Henry James savage downfall because of your own hubris as a woman, or you've made some great error leading you down a path to ruin. One is the story of love that's successful and the other is the story usually of reckless love that goes terribly wrong that destroys the woman.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Successful, Two, Errors

  "Elizabeth Gilbert, ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Author, On What It Takes To Get Inspired". Interview with Chantal Pierrat, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2013.

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

  Stephenie Meyer

  Camps, Jane, Ifs

  Source: collider.com

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• The latest gorgeous entry in the Belknap Press' growing library of annotated Jane Austen novels arrives, this time the mighty Emma under the exactingly careful guidance of Bharat Tandon of the University of East Anglia. Belknap has once again done its end of the job superbly: the book is a physical treat-luxuriantly over-sized, heavy with quality paper and solid binding, decked out in a beautiful cover and dozens of well-chosen illustrations throughout. This is one of the prettiest Jane Austen volumes available in bookstoresthis season.

  Steve Donoghue

  Beautiful, Jobs, Book

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• Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating

  Mark Haddon

  Writing, Empathy, Humdrum

  "B is for bestseller" by Mark Haddon, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• I was in Los Angeles making 'Dead Again' and the producer, Lindsay Doran , asked me if I'd be interested in adapting this book, .. Austen is my favorite author and I thought, 'Well, of course, I'd be very interested, but I don't know how. I don't know where to start, A, writing a screenplay and B, sort of adapting it from a great novel.

  Emma Thompson

  Book, Writing, Los Angeles

  "Thompson plays dual roles in 'Sense and Sensibility'" by Sherry Dean, www.cnn.com. December 14, 1995.

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• I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.

  Carolina Herrera

  Book, Shoes, Suitcases

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• It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing. I don’t think the novels of Jane Austen could have been written by a man nor the stories of Ernest Hemingway by a woman, and in the same way I believe the author of the James Tiptree stories is male.

  Robert Silverberg

  Believe, Writing, Men

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• To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession of a vast fortune must be in want of a newer, younger wife.

  Bruce Feirstein

  Men, Wife, Want

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