Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.”––Charles Dickens” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“He left a trail like a meteor, and everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens.” — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Stop, look, listen. I spit on your grave, then I grab my Charles Dickens. — The Notorious B.I.G Copy Share Image
“Til slutt stanset vi foran en streng, grå bygning som minnet meg - noe som kanskje var urettferdig - om Dothebys Hall,… — Lucinda Riley Copy Share Image
If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it,… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure I’d have put Charles Dickens next to Isaac Newton except at a dinner party, and then only if Nellie… — T E Kinsey Copy Share Image
I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
“•"Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine." -Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Ch. 37” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
People return to the same things. Charles Dickens wrote the same story a million times - and 'A Christmas Carol.' — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I love the holidays - any holiday - but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
As a schoolboy, I loved Charles Dickens. His 'David Copperfield' has had the strongest influence on me - I looked up to… — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
“Writing a novel— actually picking the words and filling in paragraphs— is a tremendous pain in the ass. Now that TV’s so… — Steve Hely Copy Share Image
“(from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) In the Old Curiosity Shop I discovered that in the character… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
“Dear Sir, I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your obliging letter, and to assure you that my time and attention are… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“We drank coffee. We talked. She loved Charles Dickens, whom she read in Norwegian. Years after she was dead, I wrote a… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“Fans of the Peanuts comic strip may also remember Snoopy beginning his novel again and again, always starting with the line 'It… — Christopher Beha Copy Share Image
But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“G. K. Chesterton wrote in Charles Dickens, that The Pickwick Papers was neither a good novel nor a bad novel but in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer… — Michael Swanwick Copy Share Image
“My dear children, I am very anxious that you should know something about the History of Jesus Christ. For everybody ought to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Well it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell truths...," I began.… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
“The sudden and uncalled for coldness with which you treated me just before I left last night, both surprised and deeply hurt… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Therefore Flora said, though still not without a certain boastfulness and triumph in her legacy, that Mr F.'s Aunt was 'very lively… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“William Wordsworth was said to have walked 180,000 miles in his lifetime. Charles Dickens captured the ecstasy of near-madness and insomnia in… — Ben Montgomery Copy Share Image
“Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are hearts to gladden. There are kind… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
“Our textbooks were ridiculous propaganda. The first English sentence we learned was "Long live Chairman Mao!" But no one dared to explain… — Jung Chang Copy Share Image
“It is the simplest phrase you can imagine,” Favreau said, “three monosyllabic words that people say to each other every day.” But… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“My indiscretion was a part of my author mystique, just like Charles Dickens and Richard Madeley.” — Rosen Trevithick Copy Share Image
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
![“I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just trying to find the shortest book that I could find. I was like, "'Hard Times,' really great - it's short, that'll do it."” quote by Felicity Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/7cc/felicity-jones-2070_book_i-studied-english-literature-at-universi_553585.jpg)
![“Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.” quote by Felix Dennis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d11/felix-dennis-3862_dickens_great-expectations-book-by-charles-dicke_1499314.jpg)
