'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
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. — David Duchovny 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
“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 Copy Share Image
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers. — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment… — Dermot Healy 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
“...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
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
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
The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,'… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
“I snorted. “They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations?” “Yeah.” “You can stay at home and hide if you… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into… — A. S. Byatt 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
“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
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“He read political books. They gave him phrases which he could only speak to himself and use on Shama. They also revealed… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“Scrooge followed to the window: desperate in his curiosity. He looked out. The air was filled with phantoms, wandering hither and thither… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first photograph of the moon, freezing her… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“From the outset Dickens seemed to take charge even though he was younger than Seymour and less well known. His narrative input… — Charles Dickens 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
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on… — William Golding 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
Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century. — Claire Tomalin 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
“A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now,… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
As a schoolboy, I loved Charles Dickens. His 'David Copperfield' has had the strongest influence on me - I looked up to… — Ruskin Bond 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
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
Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the… — John Baldessari Copy Share Image
I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Dickens' plots are his most discardable properties, and often have to be pushed aside to let the strange poetry of his imagination… — John Carey Copy Share Image
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.” — 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
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