Avid Quote by Jane Smiley

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

— William Shakespeare

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

— Claire Tomalin

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

— Robert Eggers

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from…

— Burn Gorman

If you're going to be related to someone it might as well be Dickens.

— Harry Lloyd

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

— Shaun Cassidy

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

Dickens belongs to the English people.

— Claire Tomalin

Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don't - it seems too obvious. Or too deliberate: if you…

— Sophie Hannah

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

My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if…

— John Mellencamp

“…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