Historical fiction Quote by Michael Kroft

“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

“I wondered what he would have thought if he'd known that I'd gleaned most of my information from reading historical romance novels.”

— Nicole Luiken

“Dickens didn't write what people wanted. He wanted what people wanted.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“…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

“He was more like something out of Dickens than anything human.”

— p g wodehouse

“Customer: Did Charles Dickens ever write anything fun?”

— Jen Campbell

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

— Claire Tomalin

“He left a trail like a meteor, and everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens.”

— Claire Tomalin

“One novel has been all my reading, Our Mutual Friend, one of the cleverest that Dickens has written.”

— Lewis Carroll

I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure…

— Donna Leon

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

“Dickens writes that one of his characters, "listened to everything without seeming to, which showed he understood his business.”

— Charles Dickens