“Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
The thing about Dickens is you either love him or you hate him and I fell in love with Dickens, I fell… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
I think that most creative fiction involves the transformational process, whether it is Dickens or Dostoyevsky and the writer in some sense… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much… — Joseph Brodsky 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
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
What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think… — Andre Aciman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that… — Eileen Myles Copy Share Image
Although we might think of Holmes as the Ur-sleuth, the seminal inspiration for many writers comes not from the chronicles of Baker… — Sarah Weinman 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
My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“One novel has been all my reading, Our Mutual Friend, one of the cleverest that Dickens has written.” — Lewis Carroll 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
“And so, as Tiny Tim said, "A Merry Christmas to us all; God bless us, every one!" Charles Dickens” — Nell Weaver Lyford Copy Share Image
I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the… — Frederick Busch 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
Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
“These incident acquaintances and the twisted stories that grew out of them, made John thinking that “Charles Dickens” was not just another… — Darren H. Pryce Copy Share Image
Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the… — Robert Winston Copy Share Image
I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and… — Arthur Bradford Copy Share Image
“Come!’ said he, ‘I don’t want to be told about that. I know what I took her for, as well as you… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I don't know if it's the sunshine, or the fact that I actually have a job, but I do like L.A. a… — Rich Sommer Copy Share Image
Wilkie Collins was a rival and competitor of Dickens. His novel Moonstone sold more copies at the time than Dickens' last two… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
