Books Quote by Robert Eggers Download Open image “Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.” — Robert Eggers ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Charles Dickens Fine Fun Just Obscure Read
I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me. — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator - like the great Victorians, a realist in his way. But he isn't at all like that. His genre is actually more like a fairy tale - weird transformations, long voyages from which people come back… — Martin Amis Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl. — Paul Rhys Copy Share Image
The thing about Dickens is you either love him or you hate him and I fell in love with Dickens, I fell in love… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Witch' was very well planned, but 'The Lighthouse' was so much more so. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
The more you try to turn away from darkness, the more darkness is right against your back. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
If I'm going to make a genre film, it has to be personal and it has to be good. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
The Shining' is one of the few horror movies that I actually like and it actually scared me. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Every actor demands different things. Every human being you come in contact with in your life, you have to deal with in slightly different… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
There's a lot of cool stuff going on in independent film. But obviously, yeah - all the comic-book-franchise stuff is deeply boring. But these… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
What's so interesting to me about history is - what's interesting to anyone - is how humans are the same. Their belief systems were… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
For me, rehearsal is only about blocking and pacing; it's not about performance. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I bow down to the altar of genre, because it allowed me to get 'The Witch' financed. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I had these fashion history books that I really enjoyed looking at. I liked costumes and used to wear them to school until I… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
