I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it. — Feist Copy Share Image
Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“Dickens didn't write what people wanted. He wanted what people wanted.” — G.K. Chesterton 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
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickens Like them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of Dickens — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
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
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices. — Simon Callow 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
'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is… — Claire Tomalin 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
“Society.” John Forster, who would one day become Dickens’s great friend, adviser, editor, and first biographer, wrote in the Examiner that Dickens… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
I promise to charm the dickens out of him,' said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. 'I shall charm him… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the… — William Henry Willimon 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
What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“We are now ready to tackle Dickens. We are now ready to embrace Dickens. We are now ready to bask in Dickens.… — Vladimir Nabokov 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've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles… — Gary Paulsen Copy Share Image
I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books… — John Boyne 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
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
“Mrs. Pocket was at home, and was in a little difficulty, on account of the baby's having been accommodated with a needle… — Charles Dickens 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
“I wonder if Dickens knew he was writing historical fiction when he wrote his many novels.” — Michael Kroft Copy Share Image
It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive. — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Sure, at heart I wanted to be a Dickens, but I hated being great on command.” — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain? — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
