As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive. — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
It turns out - this is a metaphor out of [Charles] Dickens - that the raw sewage emptied into the Anacostia comes… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took… — Lev Grossman 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
“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 majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that insists on "moving on" (even while our loyalty to and love of the franchise and the… — Laura Mullen 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 office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
Jimmy Dickens was the essence of country music and the heart of the Grand Ole Opry. — Connie Smith Copy Share Image
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. — Danny Boyle 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
I read an awful lot in college - a lot of Dickens, a lot of 19th century American stuff, a lot of… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating… — Anonymous 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
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
I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good. — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
