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I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.
Jane Austen is very amusing.
I've always loved Jane Austen's writing.
I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
Jane Austen is one of my all-time favourites.
I've never got on very well with Jane Austen.
To Jane Austen, every fool is a treasure trove.
I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.
One doesn't read Jane Austen; one re-reads Jane Austen.
If there was a Jane Austen camp, I would go, no question.
I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
I identify entirely with Jane Austen's point of view, on everything.
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.
After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.
My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.
I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.
I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
Anne Elliot was the one Jane Austen character I didn't fall in love with. She seemed sad and defeated.
What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they?
I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen in literature.
'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.
'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.
I can always go back to Jane Austen. 'Mansfield Park' is full of wise aphorisms and relevant observations of people.
I love that topic, the whole relationship thing, and I think that's why I love all this stuff, the Jane Austen stuff.
'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.'
There's a history of English literature where the best boils to the top, and Jane Austen stands right at the top of that.
I'm the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and devoured by the fan base.
I'm named after Jane Austen's Emma, and I've always been able to relate to her. She's strong, confident but quite tactless.
I remember when I was trying to do 'Metropolitan,' in breaks I would read a page of two of Jane Austen as a palate-cleanser.
Once I started writing the screenplay of 'Bride & Prejudice,' I was convinced Jane Austen was a Punjabi in her previous birth.
When I was in my twenties, I strongly identified with Jane Austen's 'Emma' - her human failings mixed with a desire to do good.
Am I overjoyed when somebody says, 'Oh, we're going to do another Jane Austen?' No - because there's never anything in it for me.
I grew up on Jane Austen novels and was a massive literature fanatic when I was a kid - I read everything I could get my hands on.
I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
I'm an old-fashioned English lit. man. Straight down the line - it's George Eliot, it's Dickens, it's Dr. Johnson, it's Jane Austen.
Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.
Charlotte Bronte was writing about sex. I supposed Jane Austen was, too. Where do you get a hero like Darcy unless you are writing about sex?
I mean, I knew of Jane Austen's work, and I guess I'm a fan at a distance insofar as from a literary point of view, it's beautifully written.
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.