Quote by Les Standiford Download Open image ““Daniel Maclise (whose 1839 oil of Dickens hangs today at the National Portrait Gallery).”” — Les Standiford ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“We drank coffee. We talked. She loved Charles Dickens, whom she read in Norwegian. Years after she was dead, I wrote a dissertation on… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The look of shocked surprise on his face is magnificent. I want to commission a portrait artist to capture it in oils, so I… — Sally Thorne 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
“...the cab of the truck heated up nicely, its windows fogging. I felt like a Dickens character. I thought about explaining that to Mouse,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“He left a trail like a meteor, and everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens.” — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.” — John Gray 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
“There was the honour and austerity of money as he walked through art galleries, as he saw around him the collections of oil paintings… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
“It’s like you’ve been in a terrible accident and had your arm amputated,” she told him. “After a while, the pain goes away, and… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
“Society.” John Forster, who would one day become Dickens’s great friend, adviser, editor, and first biographer, wrote in the Examiner that Dickens had excelled… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
And while dollars have little to do with it, the fiction writer should be asking the same question any capable film producer would ask:… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
Never open your story with a character thinking, I advise my students. As a further precaution, don’t put a character in a room alone… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
“That's easy," Russell said. "Because everybody else in this here place is crooked as a dog's hind leg. ...” — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
“Permanent construction of the sort Flagler was referring to would not come cheaply, however. Early in 1910, Flagler wrote to John Carrere, designer of… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
“The more a man learns, Dickens said, “the better, gentler, kinder man he must become. When he knows how much great minds have suffered… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
There are vast differences between scripts and stories, of course. Few fiction writers would want to give up the opportunity to explore how the… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
