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
No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But… — Kamila Shamsie Copy Share Image
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“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
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
Born Losers is a beautiful piece of writing. Scott Sandage is history's Dickens; his bleak house, the late nineteenth century world of… — William S. McFeely 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
I promise to charm the dickens out of him,' said Will, sitting up and readjusting his crushed hat. 'I shall charm him… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
As soon as Oliver Twist is serialized, people who would never dream of reading [Charles] Dickens, if they hadn't seen him on… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“We are now ready to tackle Dickens. We are now ready to embrace Dickens. We are now ready to bask in Dickens.… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
“Dickens' plots are his most discardable properties, and often have to be pushed aside to let the strange poetry of his imagination… — John Carey Copy Share Image
“She was very pretty: exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capital face; a ripe little mouth, that seemed made to be kissed… — Charles Dickens 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
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
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
“Dickens didn't write what people wanted. He wanted what people wanted.” — G.K. Chesterton 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
I think that when [Charles] Dickens met Nelly [Ternan] it unleashed this sort of carnal, anarchic, cruel energy within him, and literally… — Felicity Jones 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
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
“Mrs. Pocket was at home, and was in a little difficulty, on account of the baby's having been accommodated with a needle… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As a former English major, I am a sitting duck for Gift Books, and in the past few years I've gotten Dickens,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens -… — Goldwin Smith 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
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