My role models were childless: Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen, George Eliot, the Brontes. Votes: 4
Joyce Carol OatesLook at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. Votes: 4
Andrew DaviesI've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table. Votes: 4
A. N. WilsonJane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating Votes: 3
Mark HaddonAll reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. Votes: 3
Anna QuindlenIt was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding. Votes: 3
Karen Joy FowlerEvery time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven. Votes: 3
Mark Twain...in other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama Interview - March 1964 Votes: 3
Harper LeeI'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro. Votes: 3
Amy Waldman