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A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill.

Jane Austen
Inspiring, Writing, Long
Jane Austen (2006). “Illustrated Jane Austen - 8 Books in 1. Illustrated by Hugh Thomson. Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, P”, p.157, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

How can you contrive to write so even?

Jane Austen
Writing
Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.48, FV Éditions

I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am.

Jane Austen
Writing
"Jane Austen's Letters".

Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.

Jane Austen
Writing, Suspense, Ends
Jane Austen (1833). “Mansfield Park”, p.379

I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth.

Jane Austen
Art, Writing, Paper
Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.71, Oxford University Press

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & 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 my own style & 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
Writing, People, Laughing
Jane Austen, Penelope Hughes-Hallett (1991). “My dear Cassandra: the letters of Jane Austen”, Clarkson N Potter Publishers

I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.

Jane Austen
Writing, Effort, Style
Jane Austen (1906). “Letters”

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

Jane Austen
Writing, Practice, Style
Jane Austen (2012). “Northanger Abbey”, p.12, Courier Corporation

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

Jane Austen
Writing, Aunt, Letters
Blaine Josten, Jane Austen (2015). “Blaine Josten's Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (Annotated)”, p.243, BookBaby

My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.

Jane Austen
Writing, Style

Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths.

Jane Austen
Writing, People, Mouths
Jane Austen, Deirdre Le Faye (2011). “Jane Austen's Letters”, p.289, Oxford University Press

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