Affair Quote by Charles Dickens

“It may be all very well in Dickens, but when you read Dickens you're reading a long ballad from a vanished world, where everything…

— Per Petterson

Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans.

— Claire Tomalin

“Why Mr. Dickens, in his biography of that particular moment, preferred to focus on the adventures of the orphan parish child, Oliver Twist, remains…

— Peter David

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

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

— Charles Dickens

On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on…

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

“Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.”

— John Gray

“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

“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

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

— Alan Bennett

“I blame Charles Dickens for the death of my father'.”

— John Boyne

Dickens is always full of surprises.

— Claire Tomalin