Dickens Quote by G.K. Chesterton Download Open image ““Dickens didn't write what people wanted. He wanted what people wanted.”” — G.K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dickens G-k-chesterton Style Writing-quotes
“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 enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.” — John Gray Copy Share Image
“I wonder if Dickens knew he was writing historical fiction when he wrote his many novels.” — Michael Kroft Copy Share Image
“He left a trail like a meteor, and everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens.” — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“Sure, at heart I wanted to be a Dickens, but I hated being great on command.” — Rachel Heffington Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“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 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Something that comes to us, some gym shoe that comes to us as a result of child labor from a brutal dictatorship, where people… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“(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 Copy Share Image
Old Flossie settle down on the other side of What-the-Dickens and dragged some handiwork out of a sack. She armed herself with two thorns… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
In spite of their obvious differences, folk art and popular art have much in common; they are easy to understand, they are romantic, patriotic,… — Gilbert Seldes Copy Share Image
On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on… — Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Copy Share Image
Great books are readable anyway. Dickens is readable. Jane Austen is readable. John Updike's readable. Hawthorne's readable. It's a meaningless term. You have to… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“As I know only too well, anticipation od happiness can sometimes be as gratifying as its consummation. Even during the first months of my… — Gaynor Arnold Copy Share Image
[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw. — Dazzy Vance Copy Share Image
I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl. — Paul Rhys Copy Share Image
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