Anyone Quote by Claire Tomalin

“Despite the fact that he fathered ten children, Dickens, the write, never gave up his position as a child. He identified with children and…

— Siri Hustvedt

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

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— p g wodehouse

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

— Alan Bennett

“And we recall in Dickens' fiction how universal it is that a child looks after an adult, and how the adult remains so dependent…

— Peter Ackroyd

In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with…

— Fred Kaplan

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

— John Gray

Dickens was very practical and sensible.

— Claire Tomalin

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

— Claire Tomalin

'Great Expectations', in short, is a more damning account of the mess Dickens himself had made of love than any denunciation on behalf of…

— Howard Jacobson

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

No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated…

— George Orwell