Lily Collins Quotes

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.

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

I've never got on very well with Jane Austen.

Jane Austen is one of my all-time favourites.

I identify entirely with Jane Austen's point of view, on everything.

'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.

I love John Irving's stuff. It's that marriage of comedy and tragedy. It's really terrific.

'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

Jane Austen is very amusing.

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

'Pride And Prejudice' takes place in a similar period to 'Vanity Fair,' and yet there's a huge difference between Jane Austen and Thackeray.

When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed.

I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.

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.

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

I've recently rediscovered Anthony Trollope. I used to read him back in college, and a friend turned me on to a whole new series of his work, 'The Palliser Series.' It's a series of seven or eight books.

Ever since I was young, I've read Austen and the Brontes. My friends laugh, but those books are always so tragic and wonderful - those stories, they're just incredible.

I love Martin Amis.

One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.

I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'

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.

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.

In some ways, 'Mansfield Park' is 'Pride and Prejudice' turned inside out.

I love that topic, the whole relationship thing, and I think that's why I love all this stuff, the Jane Austen stuff.