I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could … - Jane Austen

" "
I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my life; and if it were indispensable for me to keep it up and never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No, I must keep to my own style and go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.

Jane Austen

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Jane Austen

Jane Austen (December 16 1775 – July 18 1817) was an English novelist who recorded the domestic manners of the landed gentry. She is known for her classically understated style and sly, ironic humour.

Biography information from Wikiquote

All quotes from Jane Austen Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Jane Austen:

Anne Brontë William Somerset Maugham Anthony Trollope Samuel Richardson Charlotte Brontë

Additional quotes by Jane Austen

There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

He seems a very harmless sort of young man, nothing to like or dislike in him — goes out shooting or hunting with the two others all the morning, and plays at whist and makes queer faces in the evening.

I could no more write a romance than an epic poem. I could not sit seriously down to write a serious romance under any other motive than to save my l… - Jane Austen

About Jane Austen

Additional quotes by Jane Austen