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The dog show emphasizes bloodline, appearance, and comportment, but money and breeding are never far from anyone's mind. ~ Karen Joy Fowler
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Karen Joy Fowler
I embellish the truth of their lives with the lies of my imagination. ~ Charlie Lovett
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Charlie Lovett
Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter. ~ Karen Joy Fowler
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Karen Joy Fowler
Anne did think on the question with perfect decision, and said as much in replay as her own feelings could accomplish, or as his seemed able to bear, for he was too much affected to renew the subject - and when he spoke again, it was something totally different. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
I will not allow books to prove any thing."
"But how shall we prove any thing?"
"We never shall. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
Till this moment I never knew myself. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival. ~ Kate Atkinson
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Kate Atkinson
If a book is well written i would find it too short. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
should infinitely prefer a book. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
Walking across the moors made me feel as if I'd stepped primly out of a Jane Austen book or an Impressionist painting. But I bet even Elizabeth Bennet had never punted a rabbit before, and my current count was 137. ~ Delilah S. Dawson
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Delilah S. Dawson
But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
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. ~ Laura Marling
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Laura Marling
I mentioned early in this book the kind of rereading distinctive of a fan
the Tolkien addict, say, or the devotee of Jane Austen or Trollope or the Harry Potter books. The return to such books is often motivated by a desire to dwell for a time in a self-contained fictional universe, with its own boundaries and its own rules. (It is a moot question whether Austen and Trollope's first readers were drawn to their novels for these reasons, but their readers today often are.) Such rereading is not purely a matter of escapism, even though that is one reason for its attraction: we should note that it's not what readers are escaping from but that they are escaping into that counts most. Most of us do not find fictional worlds appealing because we find our own lives despicable, though censorious people often make that assumption. Auden once wrote that "there must always be ... escape-art, for man needs escape as he needs food and deep sleep." The sleeper does not disdain consciousness. ~ Alan Jacobs
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Alan Jacobs
We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces. ~ Roger Ebert
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Roger Ebert
I know what you're thinking. 'How the hell does this broke ass piece of trailer trash know words like caveat,' right? Well guess what? I've read every single book on the New York Times list of 'Top 100 Literary Classics,' not to mention every Jane Austen, Sylvia Plath or Bronte sisters' book ever written. And fuck you very much for judging me, by the way. ~ Isobel Irons
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Isobel Irons
If a book is well written, I also find it too short. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
I sold my chastity for a book. If I had only resisted him, would I be here now? "I want you to read to me," he murmured as he turned to the first page. I stared at the Cyrillic script. "I can't. I don't know how." Simple conversational Russian was one thing, but the complex language of Jane Austen was another. "You will learn," he informed me. "I will help you." A small furrow appeared between his brows as he turned his eyes to the text. "It is generally accepted that a rich man should need a wife," he read, butchering the classic first line. I ~ Julia Sykes
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Julia Sykes
I am delighted with the book! I could spend my whole life reading it. - Catherine Morland ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
She is never alone when she has Her Books. Books, to her, are Friends. Give her Shakespeare or Jane Austen, Meredith or Hardy, and she is Lost - lost in a world of her own. She sleeps so little that most of her nights are spent reading. ~ E.M. Delafield
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by E.M. Delafield
That innovator is the aforementioned Hugh Thomson, who might be called the Colin Firth of Austen-inspired book illustration." (P. 52) ~ Devoney Looser
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Devoney Looser
Couples are really funny, because if they are together, they can fight and do fun things together. In Jane Austen books, marriage is the end of the story, but I actually think a really funny couple could be a fun thing to watch. ~ Mindy Kaling
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Mindy Kaling
Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative. ~ Meg Cabot
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Meg Cabot
I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?"
"Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement - people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
With a book he was regardless of time. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
I should indefinitely prefer a book. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
In the Blue Room, Cora Cash was trying to concentrate on her book. Cora found most novels hard to sympathise with -- all those plain governesses -- but this one had much to recommend it. The heroine was 'handsome, clever, and rich', rather like Cora herself. Cora knew she was handsome -- wasn't she always referred to in the papers as 'the divine Miss Cash'? She was clever -- she could speak three languages and could handle calculus. And as to rich, well, she was undoubtedly that. Emma Woodhouse was not rich in the way that she, Cora Cash, was rich. Emma Woodhouse did not lie on a lit à la polonaise once owned by Madame du Barry in a room which was, but for the lingering smell of paint, an exact replica of Marie Antoinette's bedchamber at le petit Trianon. Emma Woodhouse went to dances at the Assembly Rooms, not fancy dress spectaculars in specially built ballrooms. But Emma Woodhouse was motherless which meant, thought Cora, that she was handsome, clever, rich and free. ~ Daisy Goodwin
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Daisy Goodwin
I have said that His Dark Materials is not fantasy but stark realism, and my reason for this is to emphasise what I think is an important aspect of the story, namely the fact that it is realistic, in psychological terms. I deal with matters that might normally be encountered in works of realism, such as adolescence, sexuality, and so on; and they are the main subject matter of the story – the fantasy (which, of course, is there: no-one but a fool would think I meant there is no fantasy in the books at all) is there to support and embody them, not for its own sake.

Daemons, for example, might otherwise be only a meaningless decoration, adding nothing to the story: but I use them to embody and picture some truths about human personality which I couldn't picture so easily without them. I'm trying to write a book about what it means to be human, to grow up, to suffer and learn. My quarrel with much (not all) fantasy is it has this marvelous toolbox and does nothing with it except construct shoot-em-up games. Why shouldn't a work of fantasy be as truthful and profound about becoming an adult human being as the work of George Eliot or Jane Austen? ~ Philip Pullman
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Philip Pullman
Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. ~ Mark Twain
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Mark Twain
Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
I will read you their names directly; here they are in my pocket-book. Castle of Wolfenbach, Clermont, Mysterious Warnings, Necromancer of the Black Forest, Midnight Bell, Orphan of the Rhine, and Horrid Mysteries. Those will last us some time. '
' ... but are they all horrid? Are you sure they are all horrid?'
'Yes, quite sure; for a particular friend of mine, a Miss Andrews, a sweet girl, one of the sweetest creatures in the world, has read every one of them. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister. But her death, which happened ten years before his own, produced a great alteration in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the family of his nephew Mr. Henry Dashwood, the legal inheritor of the Norland estate, and the person to whom he intended to bequeath it. In the society of his nephew and niece, and their children, the old Gentleman's days were comfortably spent. His attachment to them all increased. The constant attention of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Dashwood to his wishes, which proceeded not merely from interest, but from goodness of heart, gave him every degree of solid comfort which his age could receive; and the cheerfulness of the children added a relish to his existence. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to go the very extremes of literature, like Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake," before you get a literary work that literally unreadable. ~ Julian Barnes
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Julian Barnes
Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her. ~ Jane Gardam
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Gardam
Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly. ~ Jane Austen
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Jane Austen
Well, I'm drawn to stuff that is darker. I will probably do a version of Jane Austen at some point because her books are really well known. Unfortunately they've been parodied to death, but they're so well known that I feel like I should approach it and I think I have an idea that will definitely spin it in a different way. There's melancholy and sadness around the edges. I haven't read all of her books, but it seems they often have ... essentially happy endings? ~ Robert Sikoryak
Jane Austen Book Club quotes by Robert Sikoryak
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