Blue Quote by Amor Towles

“But I've come to realie that however blue my circumstance,s if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort…

— Amor Towles

“One must be prepared to fight for one’s simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements.…

— Amor Towles

“…some bits of Dickens-books with which latter I am long familiar and long enamored for the restful falseness of their sentiment and the pungent…

— Mary MacLane

“One novel has been all my reading, Our Mutual Friend, one of the cleverest that Dickens has written.”

— Lewis Carroll

“A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.”

— Charles Dickens

“I snorted. “They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations?” “Yeah.” “You can stay at home and hide if you want—and wind…

— Jim Butcher

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination,…

— Ronald Frame

The thing about Dickens is you either love him or you hate him and I fell in love with Dickens, I fell in love…

— George Brandis

“Reading is one way I cope. I go somewhere else for a while and submerge myself in the character's problems instead of my mine.”

— Stephanie Lawton

“Dickens' plots are his most discardable properties, and often have to be pushed aside to let the strange poetry of his imagination emerge.”

— John Carey

“The problem with reading a good book is trying to cope after it's finished.”

— Devonnie A. Black