Dickens Quote by Felicity Jones

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

I'd studied English literature at university, but I was also far more enamored with Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, and James Joyce. That was my…

— Felicity Jones

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think…

— Jodi Picoult

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

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

— Shaun Cassidy

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

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

I hadn't read Dickens for a while and doing 'Bleak House' was great.

— Denis Lawson

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

— Harry Lloyd

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

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites…

— Maya Angelou

Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.

— Robert Eggers