Charles Dickens Quote by Claire Tomalin

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

— John Gray

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

— p g wodehouse

“It is characteristic of Dickens who, when he grasps the wrong end of the stick, never fails to belabour everyone in sight with it.”

— Peter Ackroyd

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

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— John Boyne

“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

“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

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

— Michael Kroft

“...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that to Mouse,…

— Jim Butcher

“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

“…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

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

— Jen Campbell