Book Quote by Paul Rhys

I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me.

— Sue Perkins

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my…

— Felicity Jones

'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.

— Felicity Jones

I hadn't read Dickens for a while and doing 'Bleak House' was great.

— Denis Lawson

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

— Shaun Cassidy

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly…

— Jane Birkin

'Great Expectations', in short, is a more damning account of the mess Dickens himself had made of love than any denunciation on behalf of…

— Howard Jacobson

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

— Harry Lloyd

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from…

— Burn Gorman

'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could…

— John Irving

“Finally, while I don’t want to disparage the traditional novel--I still prefer Dickens’s Great Expectations over Kathy Acker’s Great Expectations, though I’ll take Lauren…

— Steven Moore

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

— David McCullough