“...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
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
We Woosters freeze like the dickens when we seek sympathy and meet with cold reserve. "Nothing further Jeeves", I said with quiet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it… — Burn Gorman Copy Share Image
I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman,… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“It's true," says Michael. "Dicken's novels came out in monthly installments. People couldn't wait for the next chapter to arrive. Mobs would… — Paul Acampora 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
As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it. — Feist 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
The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
Deep attention, the cognitive style traditionally associated with the humanities, is characterized by concentrating on a single object for long periods (say,… — N. Katherine Hayles Copy Share Image
According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
