If social protest is antithetical to art, what then shall we make of Goya, Dickens, and Twain? — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“Sure, at heart I wanted to be a Dickens, but I hated being great on command.” — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
It does not matter that Dickens' world is not life-like; it is alive. — Lord David Cecil Copy Share Image
“I wonder if Dickens knew he was writing historical fiction when he wrote his many novels.” — Michael Kroft Copy Share Image
One of Dickens' biggest influences was the growth of London as a Victorian city, and the extremes being created as it expanded. — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens. — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
“Do you have any old copies of Dickens? Bookseller: We've got a copy of David Copperfield from 1850 for $150. Customer: Why… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the… — Alan King Copy Share Image
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment… — Dermot Healy Copy Share Image
Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare. — Ben Okri 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
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
“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
“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 am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am… — John Irving 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
I had read [Charles] Dickens's novels were often published serially. I thought it would be fun to write a book, just sitting… — Lynne Rae Perkins 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
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
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer… — Michael Swanwick 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
“I know that I am going to meet a personal variation on reality; a partial view of reality. But I know also… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we know them… — George du Maurier Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
“He very soon acquired the reputation of being the best public speaker of his time. He had taken pains to master the… — Simon Callow 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
“G. K. Chesterton wrote in Charles Dickens, that The Pickwick Papers was neither a good novel nor a bad novel but in… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
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