The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
'Bleak House' remains a great novel for me, and I love 'David Copperfield.' — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
“Esther obviously intelligent, for she wrote half of fucking Bleak House.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The plain rule is to do nothing in the dark, to be a party to nothing underhanded or mysterious, and never to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A while ago, I did a television adaptation of 'Bleak House,' and the character I played, as far as I was concerned,… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it… — Burn Gorman Copy Share Image
“You do not know what all around you see in Esther Summerson, how many hearts she touches and awakens, what sacred admiration… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I was shocked by the reaction I got for Bleak House. It was very intensive but one of the best jobs of… — Anna Maxwell Martin Copy Share Image
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of… — William S. McFeely Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov on 'Bleak House' or Henry James on 'The House of the Seven Gables' prove that reading can be an exciting… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Having seen Justin's work on Bleak House, I knew that he'd be incredibly well prepared and interesting stylistically for this and that… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
“All we have to do when reading Bleak House is to relax and let our spines take over. Although we read with… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Middlemarch is a novel that is diminished by being put on the screen. It can't help but be, because so much of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“We are now ready to tackle Dickens. We are now ready to embrace Dickens. We are now ready to bask in Dickens.… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“there was a sort of embarrassment about storytelling that struck home powerfully about one hundred years ago, at the beginning of modernism.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I recently discovered that a friend who was re-reading Bleak House had done no other Dickens apart from Barnaby Ridge. That's just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“Length, I want to suggest, has a peculiar significance for the reader of a Victorian novel and especially so if we are… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Jarndyce and Jarndyce drones on. This scarecrow of a suit has, in course of time, become so complicated that no man alive… — Dickens, Charles Copy Share Image
Although we might think of Holmes as the Ur-sleuth, the seminal inspiration for many writers comes not from the chronicles of Baker… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I get mistaken for Amanda Holden; I've had that since I was 12. I get Carey Mulligan, too. We look quite similar,… — Kimberley Nixon Copy Share Image
“There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume, page after page, the contents of… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
No-one is going to sit down and read Bleak House to the family any more, but they can all huddle up happily… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
