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I tell stories. I kind of stumbled on that by trying to combine Jane Austen and magic.


Susanna Clarke

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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
MAGGIE GRACE I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN I've been fortunate in that I never actually read any Jane Austen until I was thirty, thus spari...
CATHLEEN SCHINE I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
A. N. WILSON I remember when I was trying to do 'Metropolitan,' in breaks I would read a page of two of J...
WHIT STILLMAN I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and ins...
DAVID COPPERFIELD How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
DODIE SMITH In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama
HARPER LEE I'm the ayatollah of the Jane Austen fan base! I want to lead the fan base, not be attacked and ...
WHIT STILLMAN I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Aust...
AMY BLOOM 'Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell' by Susanna Clarke is a big, thick book. About a thousan...
ANN LECKIE I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced ...
LAURA MARLING I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
J. K. ROWLING I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining...
A. N. WILSON Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by ...
MEG CABOT I remain loyal to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in music and to Shakespeare and Jane Austen i...
ANNE STEVENSON If I tried to make money for a Jane Austen movie, I'd get laughed out of the office.
GEORGE A. ROMERO I actually didn't like Jane Austen. I was more into the Brontes. They were so wild and passionat...
FRANCES O'CONNOR People who say Jane or talk about Janeites revolt me. The sort that can walk with kings and not lose...
ANGELA THIRKELL Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.
YVES BEHAR Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.
J. K. ROWLING I think Jane Austen builds suspense well in a couple of places, but she squanders it, and she gets t...
VAL MCDERMID Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.
JANE AUSTEN The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of ...
JANE AUSTEN I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So, I shall end an old mai...
JANE AUSTEN And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There has
been many a one, I fancy, o...
JANE AUSTEN Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?"

"For the liveliness of your mind,...
JANE AUSTEN Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summari...
TRACY CHEVALIER You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and...
JANE AUSTEN Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.
CORNELIA FUNKE Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that ‘man was made to reason, woman to feel.’ Per...
EMILY AUERBACH It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding.
KAREN JOY FOWLER I love the magic of stories and the power of stories.
DAVID GRANN Jane Austen has phenomenal craft, ... I tried to stay faithful to the narrative, the tone and atmosp...
JOE WRIGHT I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will atte...
VAL MCDERMID I'm quite jealous of my Scottish relations, in whose culture everyone, in a Jane Austen kind of ...
HUGH GRANT We have also an edition of The Trial, by the notorious Jew, Kafka. Berlin would appreciate it, I am ...
STEPHEN FRY You only need to look at Jane Austen to see how crossed wires can become a defining aspect of romant...
MARIELLA FROSTRUP Oscar Wilde was sort of my first love as a young reader. And then I went on to love Jane Austen'...
WHIT STILLMAN I did a cover for 'Rolling Stone' the other day and it was a kind of crazy lack of outfit. I...
ROSE MCGOWAN My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes.
JOYCE CAROL OATES She ventured to hope he did not always read only poetry; and to say, that she thought it was the mis...
JANE AUSTEN Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.
JANE AUSTEN Did you think of anything when Miss Marcy said Scoatney Hall was being re-opened? I thought of the b...
DODIE SMITH Quite definitely a Bingley
LAUREN WILLIG People that I'm most attracted to, they're not living by any sort of rules. They're the ...
CAROLYN MURPHY Austen suggests that a gentleman is made, not born - and made only through a process of painful self...
EMILY AUERBACH I know, I can't believe it's an American either. I can do the accent, they wouldn't have hired me if...
ANNE HATHAWAY I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a m...
JANE AUSTEN Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.
JANE AUSTEN You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious f...
JANE AUSTEN When the evening was over, Anne could not but be amused at the idea of her coming to Lyme, to preach...
JANE AUSTEN I just wanted to paint and sketch and tell stories by drawing.
ROBERT REDFORD Jane Austen’s world is a unique wedge of history, immortalized by her wonderful books. It is ironi...
LESLEY-ANNE MCLEOD My new favorite title is How Jane Austen Ruined My Life. I don't have the courage to read it,...
KATHERINE REAY I combine magic and science to create illusions. I work with new media and interactive technologies,...
MARCO TEMPEST I don't think there's anything cliche feminine about Jane Austen. And, anyway, her earliest ...
WHIT STILLMAN I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the intern...
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE She [Jane Austen] was then the prettiest, silliest, most affected, husband-hunting butterfly she eve...
MARY RUSSELL MITFORD Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because w...
MARK HADDON 'Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our l...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occas...
JANE AUSTEN As for Elizabeth Bennet, our chief reason for accepting her point of view as a reflection of her aut...
MARY LASCELLES You may ask questions which I shall not choose to answer.
JANE AUSTEN I have the highest respect for your nerves, they are my old friends.
JANE AUSTEN I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. A...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë This is my life - I want to tell stories. There is something huge inside me that pushes me to tell s...
DARIO ARGENTO It is always easy to question the judgement of others in matters of which we may be imperfectly info...
P.D. JAMES I tried to come out of the box and I stumbled a little bit. I kind of tweaked it, but it's OK.
GARY SHEFFIELD I kind of stumbled into acting, even though I've always been fascinated by people and kind of th...
ADAN CANTO I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses...
EDWARD BOND The heart is a strange thing," Evelyn said, staring off into space. "It can be broken easily and tak...
SARAH HOLMAN I've done my share of period stuff. I'm not sure why, but people say I have a period face. T...
TOM HIDDLESTON I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent...
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS To paraphrase Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that a married man in possession o...
BRUCE FEIRSTEIN I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can....
J.K. ROWLING I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I ...
RICK BRAGG I was trying to find a way so I wouldn't have to get a real job. I found out that I could find a way...
JIMMY DUNN I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the...
JANE AUSTEN Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all g...
VIRGINIA WOOLF To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. ...
MARK TWAIN But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are; and I know those five Bennets at th...
DODIE SMITH Captain Harvile: Poor Phoebe, she would not have forgotten him so soon. It was not in her nature. JANE AUSTEN She was the sun of my life, the gilder of every pleasure, the soother of every sorrow, I had not a t...
CASSANDRA AUSTEN There is magic in the old and magic in the new; the trick is to successfully combine the two.
A.D. POSEY I love to tell stories and this is my way of getting them down on paper.
ELI WALLACH I was undeterred by the danger of traveling as a single American woman through Taliban-governed land...
LYNSEY ADDARIO I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like p...
GARY VAYNERCHUK When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various...
ANDY ROURKE I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am...
CAROLINA HERRERA I have 60-plus videos on YouTube and over 30 million views. Of those 60, only three or four are bran...
CASEY NEISTAT My dear, dear aunt,' she rapturously cried, what delight! what felicity! You give me fresh life and ...
JANE AUSTEN Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons...
JANE AUSTEN The best lies to tell," said Jane, "are the ones people want to believe.
JASPER FFORDE I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
ERIC KRIPKE I think we always kind of look forward to seeing each other. Dolly and Jane are both so kind of opti...
LILY TOMLIN Clarke's First L...
ISAAC ASIMOV I tell these stories because I have lied about my life to people who have been kind to me and I am t...
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ADAM CLARKE He who is completely sanctified, or cleansed from all sin, and dies in this state, is fit for glory.
ADAM CLARKE But this Christ or Redeemer took not upon him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham, that is...
ADAM CLARKE Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to...
ADAM CLARKE Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he...
ADAM CLARKE To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to b...
ADAM CLARKE However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing.
ADAM CLARKE Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value...
ADAM CLARKE Deeply consider that it is your duty and interest to read the Holy Scriptures.
ADAM CLARKE If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not...
ADAM CLARKE It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have writ...
ADAM CLARKE Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - pa...
ADAM CLARKE It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
ADAM CLARKE Pride works frequently under a dense mask, and will often assume the garb of humility.
ADAM CLARKE Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infanc...
ADAM CLARKE The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts;...
ADAM CLARKE If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts...
ADAM CLARKE Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.
ADAM CLARKE We believe that with inflation rising rapidly, and concerns among the hawks that it will be harder t...
ALAN CLARKE Services performance was encouraging especially given the glimmers of hope on the domestic demand si...
ALAN CLARKE The rise in output prices confirms signs... that firms are clawing back some pricing power.
ALAN CLARKE As ever, the input price data is an energy story, and the fall in the sterling price of oil in the l...
ALAN CLARKE Overall, this reinforces signs that we have seen the worst news on UK activity.
ALAN CLARKE The worst news on UK inflation is yet to come. The probability of a further rate cut is clearly redu...
ALAN CLARKE Speculation that we will see deep interest rates is overdone. In the context of the widely anticipat...
ALAN CLARKE Clearly the departure of the most hawkish member of the committee suggests a risk of a marginally mo...
ALAN CLARKE Clearly the departure of the most hawkish member of the committee suggests a risk of a marginally mo...
ALAN CLARKE We're disappointed that our proposal didn't go through, but we're ecstatic in the fact that they did...
ALAN CLARKE I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harde...
LEWIS CLARKE As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground...
ADAM CLARKE [With 5 fabrics to choose from, consumers have the ability to buy inexpensive and lightweight cover ...
ADAM CLARKE If they wanted their shit stirred, then stirred their shit was jolly well going to be.
STEPHEN CLARKE Liberty begets license.
JOHN CLARKE Consider not what may do, but what it will become you to do.
JOHN CLARKE Here is a fine field for talent.
JOHN CLARKE Nothing is more obnoxious than a low person raised to a high position.
JOHN CLARKE Nature has placed his own happiness in each man's hands, if he only knew how to use it.
JOHN CLARKE They are raised on high that their fall may be the greater.
JOHN CLARKE