Dickens Quotes · Page 5

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

— Anne Rice

So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with…

— Philip Kitcher

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

— Claire Tomalin

If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention…

— George Orwell

And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a…

— Jennifer Donnelly

There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare.…

— John Mortimer

“A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that…

— Rex Stout

“LONDON. Michaelmas Term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln’s Inn Hall. Implacable November weather. As much mud in the…

— Charles Dickens

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

— Rebecca Miller

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

— Lloyd Alexander

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

— Claire Tomalin

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

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of…

— Ronald Frame

I think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and…

— Felicity Jones

Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you…

— Nick Hornby

It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been…

— Ally Carter

“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you keep living, day after day after terrible day.”

— Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens was an avid seeker of names - he read directories and looked for odd names on gravestones.

— Jane Smiley

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

— Claire Tomalin

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

— Margaret Atwood

When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment…

— Dermot Healy

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

'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

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a…

— J. G. Ballard

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one…

— Felicity Jones