Dickens Quote by David McCullough Download Open image “I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.” — David McCullough ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dickens Scene Way
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
The thing about Dickens is you either love him or you hate him and I fell in love with Dickens, I fell in love… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I admire Charles Dickens, mostly for the texture of his writing and the colourful characters he created. His work gives us, I think, a… — David Essex Copy Share Image
But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It is amazing. — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
My affinity, as a novelist, with Dickens has been overstated. I relish the way everything in his prose pulsates with life force, and I'm… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all evidence that… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic,… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“As I know only too well, anticipation od happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation. Even during the first months of my… — Gaynor Arnold Copy Share Image
[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw. — Dazzy Vance Copy Share Image
I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl. — Paul Rhys Copy Share Image
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