My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. — Joyce Carol Oates
What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They — Danielle Steel
Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from austen, completely from a female point of view — Leslie Fiedler
Jane austen is at the end of the line that begins with samuel richardson, which takes — Leslie Fiedler
Miss austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. — George Saintsbury
I’ve never had a study in my life. I’m like jane austen – I work on the corner of the dining table. — A. N. Wilson