Dickens Quote by Nick Hornby

As a schoolboy, I loved Charles Dickens. His 'David Copperfield' has had the strongest influence on me - I looked up to David Copperfield…

— Ruskin Bond

It's always crude to link Dickens back to the blacking factory where he was sent to work aged 12 when his father was imprisoned…

— Harry Lloyd

If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill…

— George Orwell

I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is…

— Mark Gatiss

There's a long history of all kinds of cop films... But all these films are really about the same thing: the good guys triumphing…

— Bruce Willis

“Dickens' hypocrites are the prime beneficiaries of his inventive genius. The heroes and heroines have no imagination. We could scrap all the solemn parts…

— John Carey

I think Morse's thing about being a poor policeman but a good detective is a very good description of him.

— John Thaw

An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey…

— Andrew Davies

Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.

— Charlton Heston

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

— Claire Tomalin

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

— Jen Campbell

Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The…

— Claire Tomalin