Charles Dickens Quotes
21 quotes by 21 authors
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
— Margaret Atwood
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Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
— Peter Ackroyd
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Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in…
— Maya Angelou
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I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the worst of times.'…
— Michael Jackson
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Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English…
— Michael Swanwick
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Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had called…
— Jan Morris
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My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark…
— Debbie Macomber
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Stop, look, listen. I spit on your grave, then I grab my Charles Dickens.
— The Notorious B.I.G.
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I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot…
— Black Francis
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Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be…
— Cressida Cowell
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The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s…
— Martin Scorsese
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Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industrial Revolution. Was…
— Robert Winston
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All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.
— Anna Quindlen
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I am not unique in my elegiac sadness at watching reading die, in the era that celebrates Stephen King and J.K. Rowling rather than Charles…
— Harold Bloom
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And I knew in my bones that Emily Dickinson wouldn't have written even one poem if she'd had two howling babies, a husband bent on…
— Jennifer Donnelly
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England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing…
— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
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Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
— Robert Gottlieb
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Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical,…
— Claire Tomalin
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At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected…
— J. G. Ballard
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To me, a book is a book. A novel is a novel, and you have hundreds of possibilities, options, and they may all be fine.…
— Per Petterson
Who Wrote These Charles Dickens Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 21 Charles Dickens Quotes as follows: