Attention Quote by Charles Dickens

“Dickens didn't write what people wanted. He wanted what people wanted.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Customer: Did Charles Dickens ever write anything fun?”

— Jen Campbell

“He read political books. They gave him phrases which he could only speak to himself and use on Shama. They also revealed one region…

— V.S. Naipaul

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

— John Gray

“…some bits of Dickens-books with which latter I am long familiar and long enamored for the restful falseness of their sentiment and the pungent…

— Mary MacLane

“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm…

— Anthony Trollope

“I wonder if Dickens knew he was writing historical fiction when he wrote his many novels.”

— Michael Kroft

“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of…

— Amor Towles

“He was more like something out of Dickens than anything human.”

— p g wodehouse

“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

“I snorted. “They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations?” “Yeah.” “You can stay at home and hide if you want—and wind…

— Jim Butcher