Brilliant Quote by Richard Lederer

In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with…

— Fred Kaplan

I admire Charles Dickens, mostly for the texture of his writing and the colourful characters he created. His work gives us, I think, a…

— David Essex

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

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 man Dickens, whom the world at large thought it knew, stood for all the Victorian virtues - probity, kindness, hard work, sympathy for…

— Robert Gottlieb

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

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

— John Gray

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

— David McCullough

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

— Claire Tomalin

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

The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

— Claire Tomalin