“In the time of Dickens, almost all ironwork was green, light blue, or dull gray.” — Bill Bryson 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
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I have been fascinated by Dickens worshippers who strenuously deny that he did anything wrong in relation to his wife, even though… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they? — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
I won't go so far as to say that novels sell in inverse proportion to their worth, for just occasionally, someone like… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“It is characteristic of Dickens who, when he grasps the wrong end of the stick, never fails to belabour everyone in sight… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
“Finally, while I don’t want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens’s Great Expectations over Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations, though I’ll… — Steven Moore Copy Share Image
“...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“And let us not remember Italy the less regardfully, because, in every fragment of her fallen Temples, and every stone of her… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“I snorted. “They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations?” “Yeah.” “You can stay at home and hide if you… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
It struck me that the popularity of Christmas is a matter of web-like consciousness. Childhood conditions us to relax and expand at… — Colin Wilson 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
An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do… — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their… — Charles Dickens 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
“It may be all very well in Dickens, but when you read Dickens you're reading a long ballad from a vanished world,… — Per Petterson 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
“So far as he could prevent it, Dickens never permitted a day of his life to be ordinary. There was always some… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of… — William S. McFeely Copy Share Image
“I sit in my room like Miss Havisham, about whom I have been reading this week. Better the Dickens you know than… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“Whoever was the person behind Stonehenge was one dickens of a motivator, I'll tell you that.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
