Notable Quotations on Jane Austen

JANE AUSTEN IS THE MOST INFLUENTIAL English novelist of all time, and yet each of us relates to her in our own private way. Remarkably Jane: Notable Quotations on Jane Austen presents one hundred of the most thoughtful, humorous, and impassioned quotations on the work of Jane Austen by great writers, actors, and intellectuals from the past and present. Together, these insights form a collective view of a beloved author whose talents remain unsurpassed.

Everybody believes in some way that they are Lizzie Bennet. -KEIRA KNIGHTLEY Actress portraying Elizabeth Bennet in 2005 film version of Pride and Prejudice

It wasn't really me that everyone went crazy about-it was the character Fitzwilliam Darcy], who'd been around for a couple of centuries. -COLIN FIRTH Actor portraying Mr. Darcy in the 2005 BBC TV mini-series Pride and Prejudice

Austen's novels have been the subject of many recent popular film and television adaptations.

The Jane Austen Society of North America has more than sixty regional groups in the United States and Canada.

Devoted fans of Jane Austen, known as Janeites, have created online libraries of hundreds of creative works inspired by her novels. The two largest libraries can be found at www.austen.com and www.pemberley.com.

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Jennifer Adams is a self-acknowledged Janeite and bibliophile. She works as a writer and editor in Salt Lake City. She is a member of the Jane Austen Society of North America. Remarkably Jane is her seventh book.

The wit of Jane Austen has for partner the perfection of her taste. Virginia Woolf, 1925 It wasn t really me that everyone went crazy about it was the character [Fitzwilliam Darcy], who d been around for a couple of centuries. Colin Firth, 1997 Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone. Mark Twa in, 1898 For those of us who suspect all the mysteries of life are contained in the microcosm of the family, that personal relationships prefigure all else, the work of Jane Austen is the Rosetta stone of literature. Anna Quindlen, 1995

Forming a collective view of the most influential English novelist of all time, "Remarkably Jane" presents 100 of the most thoughtful, humorous, and impassioned quotations on the work of Jane Austen by great writers, actors, and intellectuals from the past and present.