Miss Bennet, I Am Quite Aware Of

I Know Of Nobody That Is Coming, I Am Sure, Unless Charlotte Lucas Should Happen To Call In- And I Am Sure My Dinners Are Good Enough For Her, Since She Is An Unmarried Woman Of Seven-and-twenty, And As Such Should Expect Little More Than A Crust Of Bread Washed Down With A Cup Of Loneliness.

If You're Stephen King And You Have A Massive Body Of Huge-selling Well-respected Work, You Can Pivot And Do Whatever You Want. I Don't Have That Body Of Work, I Don't Have That Audience That's Comfortable With Me Enough Yet To Follow My Bliss With Me.

But If You Read Jane Austen, You Know That She Had A Wicked Sense Of Humor. Not Only Was She Funny, But Her Early Writing Was Very Dark And Had A Gothic Tone To It.

Pride And Prejudice' - Perhaps More Than Any Other Jane Austen Book - Is Engrained In Our Literary Consciousness.

I Fear That A Life Of Death Has Made Me Numb To Both.