Posted by
Claudia Moser
on
6:53 AM
in
Jane Austen,
Quotes
“A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.”
Jane Austen
“To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.”
Jane Austen
“Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.”
Jane Austen
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Jane Austen
|
Motto
"A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you."
by Alice Munro
