Jane Eyre

"Jane Eyre remains a favorite. Her truthfulness sometimes made me laugh. And her loneliness and need to make her own way mirrored my feelings."

"My father gave me a copy of "Jane Eyre" two Christmases in a row, by accident, and then several times more, on purpose."

""Jane Eyre." I read it for the first time when I was 11 years old and have read it many times since. The longing and heartbreak and redemption. . . . Forget it."

"Last summer — craving a different time and place — I revisited "Jane Eyre," "Wuthering Heights" and "Rebecca" in a back-to-back swoop. All three were even better, smarter and more suspenseful than I had remembered."

"'Jane Eyre.' When my wife's out of town, I find myself wandering around the house in a silk dressing gown, engaged in Rochester fantasies."

"Oh, it’s hard to isolate just one. “Jane Eyre.” “The Grapes of Wrath.” “The Lord of the Rings.” “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.” The Brothers Grimm. “Great Expectations.” “Middlemarch.” “The Day of the Triffids.” “Antigone.” “The Waves.” “Dune.”"

"It simply has it all — a marvelous, compelling story told brilliantly, wonderfully realized characters, a gorgeous love story, evocative settings. And the madwoman in the attic. Hard to top it."

"I loved romance fiction that wasn't packaged that way: Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Rebecca."

"“Jane Eyre” was the book that made me want to write."

"Perhaps "Jane Eyre." Something in the fierceness of the character's convictions; despite being small, female, without resources, she perseveres."