Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
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… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are… — Gilbert Seldes 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
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… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“As I know only too well, anticipation od happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation. Even during the first months… — Gaynor Arnold Copy Share Image
[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I… — Dazzy Vance Copy Share Image
I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school… — Paul Rhys Copy Share Image
Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
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Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
It was the last generation of writers [ the Cheers] that had grown up reading books instead of watching TV. So you… — John Ratzenberger 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
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute 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
“Dickens' hypocrites are the prime beneficiaries of his inventive genius. The heroes and heroines have no imagination. We could scrap all the… — John Carey Copy Share Image
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