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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

— David McCullough

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 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

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

Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator…

— Martin Amis

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

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

“Dickens' plots are his most discardable properties, and often have to be pushed aside to let the strange poetry of his imagination emerge.”

— John Carey

“Dickens' hypocrites are the prime beneficiaries of his inventive genius. The heroes and heroines have no imagination. We could scrap all the solemn parts…

— John Carey

The man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for…

— Robert Gottlieb

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 doubt if Dickens did, especially his women-his pretty women-Mrs. Dombey, Florence, Dora, Agnes, Ruth Pinch, Kate Nickleby, little Emily-we know them all through…

— George du Maurier