Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
“Have you ever done it in a sauna" Marina asked. "It's even more exciting when it's hot." "And more debilitating, I'll bet."… — Joyce Haber 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
Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping… — Lance Morrow 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
Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“The year was dying early, the leaves were falling fast, it was a raw cold day when we took possession, and the… — Charles Dickens 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
Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules...… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as… — Robert Gottlieb 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
Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so… — Jane Birkin 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
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices. — Simon Callow Copy Share Image
The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
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