“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Dickens's humanity and compassion made an extraordinary impact on Victorian England through his writings, which remain immensely popular. This bicentenary should help… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
“Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first photograph of the moon, freezing her… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Every book was a revelation to their suggestible young minds. They both sulked through their work-study jobs after Marx told them they… — Kathy Cooperman 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
My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Anger is a powerful force. It has started and ended wars, won the vote for marginalized groups like women and people of… — Lila Monroe Copy Share Image
I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves… — Neil Gaiman 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
“In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me… — Jane Hamilton 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
“•"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
“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
It turns out you can train a neural network on a big body of text. It can be Wikipedia; it can be… — Robin Sloan 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
“Oh, don't get me started! I love fantasy, I read it for pleasure, even after all these years. Pat McKillip, Ursula Le… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd 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
I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that… — Eileen Myles 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
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 admire Charles Dickens, mostly for the texture of his writing and the colourful characters he created. His work gives us, I… — David Essex 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
