Charles Dickens Quotes

21 Charles Dickens quotes by 21 unique authors

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form. — Margaret Atwood
Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens. — Peter Ackroyd
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
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
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
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
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
Stop, look, listen. I spit on your grave, then I grab my Charles Dickens. — The Notorious B.I.G.
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
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
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
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
All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading. — Anna Quindlen
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
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
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
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. — Robert Gottlieb
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
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
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
No. But isn't that a bit weird? Agatha Christie didn't walk around surrounded by murders. Not really. I mean that's like meeting Charles Dickens and… — Donna Noble

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