Bourbon Quote by Lance Morrow

Of Dickens' style it is impossible to speak in praise. It is jerky, ungrammatical, and created by himself in defiance of rules... No young…

— Anthony Trollope

“You cannot read Dickens without putting in a little more effort. You cannot eat a ripe pawpaw without its innards and juice spilling down…

— Lloyd Jones

“Tonight, however, Dickens struck him in a different light. Beneath the author’s sentimental pity for the weak and helpless, he could discern a revolting…

— Margaret Irwin

“…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

Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator…

— Martin Amis

As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens…

— Virginia Woolf

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

— Claire Tomalin

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

— William Shakespeare

The Victorians needed parody. Without it their literature would have been a rank and weedy growth, over-watered with tears.

— Stephen Leacock

When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail to love…

— Claire Tomalin

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

“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