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
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
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
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'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
I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free… — James Mattis Copy Share Image
We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of… — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
I have been fascinated by Dickens worshippers who strenuously deny that he did anything wrong in relation to his wife, even though… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular,… — Jodi Picoult 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
“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
What’s ready? Was Steinback ready? Hemingway? Shakespeare? Dickens? Jane Austen? They just did it, didn’t they? — Danielle Steel 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
Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
“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
I had a very sparse comic upbringing - not because I was being whipped into reading Chekhov and Dickens, but I read… — Benedict Cumberbatch 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
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
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