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“Dickens didn't write what people wanted. He wanted what people wanted.” — G.K. Chesterton 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
“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
“A DINNER AT POPLAR WALK This is the first published work of Charles Dickens, which appeared in the Monthly Magazine in December 1833. It… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The thing about Dickens is you either love him or you hate him and I fell in love with Dickens, I fell in love… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
“I wonder if Dickens knew he was writing historical fiction when he wrote his many novels.” — Michael Kroft 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
“…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 Copy Share Image
“Very few conversations with Charles Dickens did not include a laugh from him. I had never met a man so given to laughter. Almost… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.” — John Gray Copy Share Image
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“CUSTOMER: OK, so you want this book? THEIR DAUGHTER: Yes! CUSTOMER: Peter Pan ? THEIR DAUGHTER: Yes, please. Because he can fly. CUSTOMER: Yes,… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“There are many different types of beginnings. And who’s to say we haven’t imagined our lives up to this point? Who’s to say we… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“CUSTOMER: I read a book in the sixties. I don’t remember the author, or the title. But it was green, and it made me… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
“It makes me sad that grown up books don’t have pictures in them. You’re brought up with them when you’re younger, and then suddenly… — Jen Campbell Copy Share Image
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“(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
“Dickens's humanity and compassion made an extraordinary impact on Victorian England through his writings, which remain immensely popular. This bicentenary should help renew our… — Anonymous 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
“Mr. Charles Dickens was serializing his novel Oliver Twist; Mr. Draper had just taken the first photograph of the moon, freezing her pale face… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Every book was a revelation to their suggestible young minds. They both sulked through their work-study jobs after Marx told them they were “estranged… — Kathy Cooperman Copy Share Image
If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was… — Anthony Horowitz Copy Share Image
My father read Charles Dickens to us as children, and at the end of virtually every novel he would choke up and start to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
“Anger is a powerful force. It has started and ended wars, won the vote for marginalized groups like women and people of color, and… — Lila Monroe Copy Share Image
I looked at the world of books and just went, Oh my gosh, if I'm writing novels, I'm on the same shelves as Jane… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I’m not sure I’d have put Charles Dickens next to Isaac Newton except at a dinner party, and then only if Nellie Melba hadn’t… — T E Kinsey 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
“In Charles Dickens's books I had to admire the way the meanest enemies spoke to each other, with what seemed to me to be… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
