Books Quote by Cheryl Mendelson

“Actually the contents of these books mattered little. What did matter was what they first felt when they went into the library, where they…

— Albert Camus

As a schoolboy, I loved Charles Dickens. His 'David Copperfield' has had the strongest influence on me - I looked up to David Copperfield…

— Ruskin Bond

“(from his random observations after reading David Copperfield by Charles Dickens) In the Old Curiosity Shop I discovered that in the character of Dick…

— Nick Hornby

“Almost none of them understood Great Expectations or David Copperfield, anyway. They were not only too young for the Dickensian language, they were also…

— John Irving

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey…

— Andrew Davies

“David Copperfield has no magic in him. I'm talking about Santa flying around the world in one night kind of magic. Pumpkins transformed into…

— Sydney Strand

“This is where the pivotal events of my childhood unfolded, while I ate banana and root beer Popsicles, two by two, tucking the sticks…

— Jo Ann Beard

“Why a widow should raise an attractive or pathetic image in one’s mind, or at the worst something rather bold and dashing, while widower…

— Angela Thirkell

'Bleak House' remains a great novel for me, and I love 'David Copperfield.'

— Sue Perkins

Boy George has been charged with falsely imprisoning a man who'd gone to his apartment to pose for photographs. Going to Boy George's house…

— Chelsea Handler

“Homer Wells was in Wally’s room, reading David Copperfield and thinking about Heaven – ‘…that sky above me, where, in the mystery to come,…

— John Irving

It's so funny, all the similarities that we have [with David Copperfield] of being obsessed young people and finding a way to be around…

— Judd Apatow