Quote by Peter Ackroyd

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

— Claire Tomalin

“…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

“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

“It may be all very well in Dickens, but when you read Dickens you're reading a long ballad from a vanished world, where everything…

— Per Petterson

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

— Charles Dickens

“Dickens enjoyed human beings as he found them, unregenerate, peculiar and incorrigibly themselves.”

— John Gray

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

— G.K. Chesterton

“I blame Charles Dickens for the death of my father'.”

— John Boyne

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

— p g wodehouse

“I've come to realize that however blue my circumstances, if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort of…

— Amor Towles

“But I've come to realie that however blue my circumstance,s if after finishing a chapter of a Dickens novel I feel a miss-my-stop-on-the-train sort…

— Amor Towles

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

— William Shakespeare