The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool. — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In A Midnight Carol Patricia Davis illuminates the dark and brilliant humanity of Charles Dickens -- the man who lived a rags-to-riches… — Richard Lederer Copy Share Image
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
At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They're both… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
It's a cliche to say this now, but to me, 'The Sopranos' is like Dickens. It's able to take this very focused… — Stephen Merchant 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
Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by… — George Saintsbury 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
“Dad used to read aloud to us from Dickens and Kipling. My tastes were omnivorous. I read anything I could lay my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Throughout my teenage years, I read 'A Christmas Carol' by Charles Dickens every December. It was a story that never failed to… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life,… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen. If only they would… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I never understood people who said their greatest fear was public speaking, or spiders, or any of the other minor terrors. How… — David Benioff 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
“And if you expect you'll gain anything from us by your way of approachin' us, you're jolly well mistaken. That's all. Good-night.'… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
I've read probably 25 or 30 books by Balzac, all of Tolstoy - the novels and letters - and all of Dickens.… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I want people to be open to the idea of sitting down and reading a Dickens book. They will also have a… — Miriam Margolyes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Mark Twain didn't psychoanalyze Huck Finn or Tom Sawyer. Dickens didn't put Oliver Twist on the couch because he was hungry! Good… — Samuel Fuller Copy Share Image
All Dickens's humour couldn't save Dickens, save him from his overcrowded life, its sordid and neurotic central tragedy and its premature collapse.… — Stephen Leacock 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
Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as "Dickens's harshest indictment of society." Which it is. After all, it's about… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been… — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his… — Virginia Woolf 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
A handful of works in history have had a direct impact on social policy: one or two works of Dickens, some of… — Tony Kushner 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
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 Copy Share Image
The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman,… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship,… — P. J. O'Rourke 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
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
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