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You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.

I don't like to think of my readership as 'fans,' a word which has always suggested a kind of power relationship I'm uncomfortable with.

I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.

Jane Austen is very amusing.

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will attempt to bring the highest level of my own prose, and to make it sparkle.

I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionate. I thought there was something a bit tame about Austen.

I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.