Coming Quote by Claire Tomalin

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

— Terry Pratchett

Dickens didn't have access to any other epistemologies other than those prevailing in Britain. But a novelist today cannot plausibly claim ignorance of his…

— Pankaj Mishra

I've never been involved in any kind of political movement.

— Issey Miyake

“In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people they govern…

— Edmund Wilson

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

— Harry Lloyd

I never have been involved in politics.

— Rick Warren

As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with…

— Claire Tomalin

He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who accommodates his views to public opinion.]

— Juvenal

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

— Charles Dickens

Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief…

— Joseph Brodsky

Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of…

— Anne Rice

I have never tried to fiddle my role as leader of the city of Sheffield, as an MP or as a minister.

— David Blunkett