Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard of.
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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.
Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
Jane Austen is very amusing.
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus sparing myself several decades of the unhappiness of having no new Jane Austen novels to read.
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
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 identify entirely with Jane Austen's point of view, on everything.
I don't think there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest champions were Sir Walter Scott and the Prince Regent.
I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.