Cathleen Schine Quotes

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

I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.

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 is very amusing.

Jane Austen is one of my all-time favourites.

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

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

I've never read 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,' although I certainly know what that is. And what I love about that concept is as much as it's a zombie story, it's also 'Pride and Prejudice.'

I must confess that in my teens and twenties, I loved 'Mansfield Park' rather in spite of Fanny than because of her. Like Fanny's rich, sophisticated cousins, I didn't really get her.

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.

Anne Elliot was the one Jane Austen character I didn't fall in love with. She seemed sad and defeated.

I can talk about Jane Austen until the cows come home.

Because I had grown up with Jane Austen novels and period dramas, I was very familiar with that period and that world.

The poetry of Walt Whitman. I can return again and again to these magnificent poems and still get pleasure from reading them.

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.

My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how desperately I don't want the story to end.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

When I was about 12 or 13, my father gave me 'The Little Prince.' He was making sure that I knew it was a special book. I'd seen the name of Antoine de Saint-Exupery, but to me it seemed a very French name, and I was not excited about him as a person.

'War and Peace' goes down a lot smoother than a Dan Brown novel, let me tell you.

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.

The 'Pride and Prejudice' with Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle was something I watched on a weekly basis with my mum at home in Oxfordshire.

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.

I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

Most scholarly books we read for the information or insight they contain. But some we return to simply for the pleasure of the author's company.

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