She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it. — Feist Copy Share Image
“I don't fear death--I fear dying before I've read Dickens end to end.” — Amy Elizabeth Smith Copy Share Image
“A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew… — G.K. Chesterton 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
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
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
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
“You cannot read Dickens without putting in a little more effort. You cannot eat a ripe pawpaw without its innards and juice… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I… — Rebecca Miller Copy Share Image
“I snorted. “They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations?” “Yeah.” “You can stay at home and hide if you… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“It may be all very well in Dickens, but when you read Dickens you're reading a long ballad from a vanished world,… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
