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“It's odd how much our perception of cities owes to stories and films.We talk about 'Dickensian' London as if it had some real existence…

— Joel Lane

There are stories and history everywhere in London.

— Sarah Pinborough

There's nowhere else like London. Nothing at all, anywhere.

— Vivienne Westwood

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

— Roger Rees

“London was a city of ghosts, some deader than others. Thorne knew that in this respect, it wasn't unlike any other major city -…

— Mark Billingham

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

— Alan Moore

London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters…

— Peter Ackroyd

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

— Claire Tomalin

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

— Feist

I think we like to romanticise about past eras, and for sure there have been great ones (like the 1820s maybe, or the 1530s)…

— Patrick Grant

“Perhaps it was that I wanted to see what I had learned, what I had read, what I had imagined, that I would never…

— Anna Quindlen

I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.

— William Hazlitt