Bleak house Quote by Denis Lawson

“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

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that…

— Alan King

If you want to study writing, read Dickens

— Shelby Foote

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

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

She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.

— Eudora Welty

“You cannot read Dickens without putting in a little more effort. You cannot eat a ripe pawpaw without its innards and juice spilling down…

— Lloyd Jones

“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

Deirdre Maddon has an extraordinary, almost celestial way of telling a story. There are so many great writers now - although I also want…

— Rebecca Miller

“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

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.

— Eudora Welty

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

— Feist