Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm…

— Anthony Trollope

Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.

— Ian Mckellen

Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns…

— Gregory Maguire

I was a complete and typical only child. I was bookish, and sport was out of the question anyway. I had read all of…

— David Starkey

I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the…

— Amy Bloom

In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic,…

— Gilbert Seldes

“Dickens's humanity and compassion made an extraordinary impact on Victorian England through his writings, which remain immensely popular. This bicentenary should help renew our…

— Anonymous

“The Victorian era was an age of superlatives and larger-than-life characters, and as far as that goes, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse fit right in: what…

— Neal Stephenson

On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on…

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to…

— Julian Barnes

“As I know only too well, anticipation od happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation. Even during the first months of my…

— Gaynor Arnold

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens…

— Anna Quindlen

Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.

— Dazzy Vance

“‎Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I'll tell you that.”

— Bill Bryson