Books Quote by David Markson

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

— Goldwin Smith

“…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

“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

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

— p g wodehouse

“One novel has been all my reading, Our Mutual Friend, one of the cleverest that Dickens has written.”

— Lewis Carroll

“Papa thought that any book worth reading twice was worth owning. So instead of buying desserts, we bought books.”

— Natalie S. Bober

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

— John Boyne

“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

“As you know, Francis, I hate like the dickens to have to send any boy to the reformatory. I refuse to believe that any…

— Harold Robbins

“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

“Richard Dawkins can suck my Dickens.”

— Jarod Kintz

“In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be…

— Jane Hamilton