Books Quote by Edmund Wilson

Dickens belongs to the English people.

— Claire Tomalin

“If any class deserves to be protected and assisted by the government, it is the class who are banished from their native land in…

— Joseph O Connor

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

— G.K. Chesterton

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

— Claire Tomalin

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination,…

— Ronald Frame

“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

I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later…

— Lev Grossman

“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

“Dickens must have first heard his famous The law is an ass quote from a woman. And she was damned right, for all the…

— Moriah Densley

“…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

“(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

Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The…

— Claire Tomalin