Susanna Clarke Quotes

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

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

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.

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

'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.

'Emma' is my favorite Jane Austen novel - one of my favorite novels period; a novel about intelligence outsmarting itself, about a complicated, nuanced, irresistible heroine who does everything wrong.

People love Jane Austen, even though those books are absurd to us, because we like the clarity of it: we can see very clearly what Elizabeth Bennett has to overcome, what she has to deal with.

I've always loved Jane Austen's writing.

I can always go back to Jane Austen. 'Mansfield Park' is full of wise aphorisms and relevant observations of people.

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

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'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.'

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 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.

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.

Jane Austen is very amusing.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

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

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

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

Jane Austen is one of my all-time favourites.

From a plot perspective, what I finally found for my touchstone was that I consider 'Upside' to be a loose telling of Jane Austen's 'Emma,' or 'Clueless.'

I love Victorian novels, the way they capture the nuances of the human condition.

I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. And what did I find? An accurate daguerreotyped portrait of a common-place face; a carefully fenced, highly cultivated garden, with neat borders and delicate flowers; but no glance of a bright, vivid physiognomy, no open country, no fresh air, no blue hill, no bonny beck. I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen, in their elegant but confined houses.