Charles-dickens Quote by Eudora Welty Download Open image “She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him.” — Eudora Welty ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Charles-dickens Dickens Elopement Entrancement Inspirational Love Reading Religion Spirit
She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Henry nodded. “May I ask you a question?” “Certainly, Your Grace.” He pointed at Jack. “Is he the Artful Dodger?” Mr. Dickens bent low.… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her… — Whit Stillman 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 writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.” — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways. — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything… — Susan Coolidge Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“She (my mother) could still recite them (the poems) in full when she was lying helpless and nearly blind, in her bed, an old… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Long before I wrote stories, I listened for stories. Listening for them is something more acute than listening to them. I suppose it’s an… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Once you're into a story everything seems to apply-what you overhear on a city bus is exactly what your character would say on the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Two by two, I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“When somebody, no matter who, gives everything, it makes people feel ashamed for him.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing, once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“All children in those small-town, unhurried days had a vast inner life going on in the movies. Children were allowed to go without chaperone… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“At the sting in her eyes, she remembered for him that there must be no tears in his.” — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“We do need to bring to our writing, over and over again, all the abundance we possess. To be able, to be ready, to… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“When one of us (children) caught measles or whooping cough and we were isolated in bad upstairs, we wrote notes to each other perhaps… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“She (my mother) stood always prepared in herself to challenge the world in our place. She did indeed tend to make the world look… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction among us… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Možda si ti kakav neprobavljeni komad govedine, žličica gorčice, grumenčić sira, polovica nedokuhana krumpira. Ti imaš više veze sa drobom nego sa grobom, ma… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“When I had lain awake a little awhile, those extraordinary voices with which silence teems, began to make themselves audible. The closet whispered, the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern a revolting… — Margaret Irwin Copy Share Image
“The sudden and uncalled for coldness with which you treated me just before I left last night, both surprised and deeply hurt me -… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A man would die tonight of lying out on the marshes, I thought. And then I looked at the stars, and considered how awful… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“...but everything in our intercourse did give me pain. Whatever her tone with me happened to be, I could put no trust in it,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip through, with… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
