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Austen Quotes

Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.
Leslie Fiedler

Far more people have enjoyed Jane Austen's work on television than will ever read her books.
Hugh Mackay

I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
Anne Stevenson

Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.
Leslie Fiedler

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. Rowling

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

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.
Mark Haddon

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
George Saintsbury

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