Decided Quote by Bob Dylan

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

— Harry Lloyd

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

— Edward Carpenter

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

— Shaun Cassidy

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly…

— Jane Birkin

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

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

— Alan Bennett

And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts.

— Robert Jay Lifton

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.

— Felicity Jones

I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed…

— Jane Smiley

One of the reasons I began to write was because I wanted stories for my children where the characters spoke as they did and…

— Theresa Breslin

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the…

— Erskine Caldwell

I became a reader - never mind a writer - because of Stephen King.

— Paul G. Tremblay