Dickens Quotes · Page 3

I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me.

— Sue Perkins

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

— Eudora Welty

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

— George Orwell

“I think appreciating Dickens goes with ten thousand in the bank.”

— Herman Wouk

Stop, look, listen. I spit on your grave, then I grab my Charles Dickens.

— The Notorious B.I.G

Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry.

— Connie Smith

Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.

— Ian Mckellen

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

— Claire Tomalin

“I’m not sure I’d have put Charles Dickens next to Isaac Newton except at a dinner party, and then only if Nellie…

— T E Kinsey

I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because…

— Whit Stillman

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

— Lloyd Alexander

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

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

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

People return to the same things. Charles Dickens wrote the same story a million times - and 'A Christmas Carol.'

— Robert Eggers

I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free…

— James Mattis

As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens,…

— Garrison Keillor

I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

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

I think that when [Charles] Dickens met Nelly [Ternan] it unleashed this sort of carnal, anarchic, cruel energy within him, and literally…

— Felicity Jones

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their…

— Anna Quindlen

“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train…

— Amor Towles

No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But…

— Kamila Shamsie

“Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means. Even the fastidious and unhappy who cannot read his books without a…

— G.K. Chesterton

Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a…

— Martin Amis

“G. K. Chesterton wrote in Charles Dickens, that The Pickwick Papers was neither a good novel nor a bad novel but in…

— Charles Dickens

We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of…

— Frederick Busch

William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles…

— Marchette Chute

“She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed…

— Charles Dickens

Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer…

— Michael Swanwick

“As I know only too well, anticipation od happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation. Even during the first months…

— Gaynor Arnold

“The year was dying early, the leaves were falling fast, it was a raw cold day when we took possession, and the…

— Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.

— Robert Eggers

“Daniel Maclise (whose 1839 oil of Dickens hangs today at the National Portrait Gallery).”

— Les Standiford

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I…

— Rebecca Miller

I love the holidays - any holiday - but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles…

— Matthew Gray Gubler

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

“(On Dickens) No other writer is quite as good at making marriage vows about remaining together "till death us do part" sound…

— Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so…

— Jane Birkin

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