“Have you ever done it in a sauna" Marina asked. "It's even more exciting when it's hot." "And more debilitating, I'll bet."… — Joyce Haber Copy Share Image
I think that with Bob Dylan around, we're living in an era where we have Whitman presenting new work, we have Dickens… — Benmont Tench Copy Share Image
“But I've come to realie that however blue my circumstance,s if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“It's true," says Michael. "Dicken's novels came out in monthly installments. People couldn't wait for the next chapter to arrive. Mobs would… — Paul Acampora Copy Share Image
I called my mom, and I was so excited. I was telling her, 'I'm going to be on the Grand Ole Opry!… — Carrie Underwood Copy Share Image
The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The way that Dickens structured his books has a form that we most readily recognize now from, say, the great T.V. series,… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Despite the fact that he fathered ten children, Dickens, the write, never gave up his position as a child. He identified with… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and… — 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
It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail… — Claire Tomalin 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
I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever… — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
“The master was the light of her life. And I always says that the ones who quarrels takes the loss the hardest… — Gaynor Arnold Copy Share Image
I was a complete and typical only child. I was bookish, and sport was out of the question anyway. I had read… — David Starkey Copy Share Image
My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force,… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love… — James E. Faust Copy Share Image
“Dickens' hypocrites are the prime beneficiaries of his inventive genius. The heroes and heroines have no imagination. We could scrap all the… — John Carey Copy Share Image
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I remember one review of The Office Christmas Special that compared it unfavourably to Dickens. What? You're saying I'm not as good… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
I can't imagine how American readers will react to a novel, but if the story is appealing it doesn't matter much if… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
As a child, I was fascinated by the stories of Dickens acting out everything in front of the mirror as he wrote… — Harry Lloyd Copy Share Image
The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There's such a wealth of literature from the 18th century and 19th century, George Eliot... Jane Austen... that's all about a genteel… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Little Jimmy Dickens has long been a musical hero of mine and one of the finest entertainers to ever step on any… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously… — Michelle Dockery Copy Share Image
I'm kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother's a children's librarian, and all of the children's literature I read was from her… — Jefferson Mays Copy Share Image
“Dickens's humanity and compassion made an extraordinary impact on Victorian England through his writings, which remain immensely popular. This bicentenary should help… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Victorian era was an age of superlatives and larger-than-life characters, and as far as that goes, Dr. Wildman Whitehouse fit right… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
'Joker' was a violent, dark, and brutal book, so I wanted to do something a little less heavy. I played around with… — Lee Bermejo Copy Share Image
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