Jessica Brown Findlay Quotes

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.

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

I kinda go for the Jane Eyre type of film. I am fascinated by classics.

Reading was such a formative part of my childhood (along with 'Loony Tunes'), that it is difficult to pin point the most influential book. But, under an interrogation light I would probably have to say 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Bronte.

The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books.

I've always loved Jane Austen's writing.

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.

'Pride and Prejudice' is often compared to 'Cinderella,' but Jane Austen's real 'Cinderella' tale is 'Mansfield Park.'

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read.

Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.

Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia University.

Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.

Before 'Austenland,' I got do a lead role in 'Northanger Abbey', which is Jane Austen. Growing up in England, you can't really ignore Jane Austen. It's always been there.

I love 'Jane Eyre,' and I love the Bronte sisters. I actually didn't read any of them until I was in college, so I don't have quite the same connection with them that I think a lot of women do.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.

I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

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

My favorite classic novel may be 'The Invisible Man.' It's smart and genuinely funny. Otherwise, my favorite character is probably Frankenstein's Monster/Frankenstein the Monster.

I read one Jane Austen in college and didn't like it at all and told everyone how much I disliked it. I read 'Northanger Abbey' sophomore year in college and hated it. I didn't read good Austen until after college, maybe a couple years out.

I love period dramas.

If you're looking for a book that's not been influenced by 21st century popular culture and that's guaranteed to be a good read because it's stood the test of time, you can't go wrong with the classics.