“I'm a Jewish Jane Austen.”

“It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing.”

“In other words, all I want to be is the Jane Austen of south Alabama”

“Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told) protected women from truth, were burst by the Brontës or elaborately untied by George Eliot. Yet the fact remains that Jane Austen knew more about men than either of them. Jane Austen may have been protected from truth: but it was precious little of truth that was protected from her.”

“Raw sex is the last thing you are going to encounter in a Jane Austen woman.”

“All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.”

“That's the attraction of the conference circuit: it's a way of converting work into play, combining professionalism with tourism, and all at someone else's expense. Write a paper and see the world! I'm Jane Austen – fly me!”

“Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it.”

“Now I was more certain than ever of my decision. I could not love a man who did not love Jane Austen.”

“If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.”