Dickens Quote by John Carey

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

“(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

Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.

— Ian Mckellen

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

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

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

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

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

“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

[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

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

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