Dare Quote by Anthony Trollope

Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator…

— Martin Amis

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

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of…

— Anne Rice

“You cannot read Dickens without putting in a little more effort. You cannot eat a ripe pawpaw without its innards and juice spilling down…

— Lloyd Jones

According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver…

— Melina Marchetta

As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens…

— Virginia Woolf

“Dickens' hypocrites are the prime beneficiaries of his inventive genius. The heroes and heroines have no imagination. We could scrap all the solemn parts…

— John Carey

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

Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

— Andrew Davies

My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I'm…

— Michel Faber

When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail to love…

— Claire Tomalin

I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is…

— Mark Gatiss