Imaginative Quote by Tom Riley

“Henry nodded. “May I ask you a question?” “Certainly, Your Grace.” He pointed at Jack. “Is he the Artful Dodger?” Mr. Dickens bent low.…

— Lorraine Heath

“Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed…

— Virginia Woolf

Although many of his other novels are brilliant there is a power in 'Oliver Twist' that I believe Dickens never managed to retrieve. It…

— Henning Mankell

“The ordinary writer has an unmistakable preference for this style, because it causes the reader to spend time and trouble in understanding that which…

— Arthur Schopenhaur

“He who would be a writer, fine, Must take a deal of pains, Must criticize his every line, And mix his ink with brains.”

— Platt Rogers Spencer

“Most of the world's ills, it seemed to him, were caused by men who believed themselves important: on a good day it always ended…

— Alan Plater

“The world is a stage, but the play is badly written.”

— Oscar Wilde

I guess I always knew going into the movie that casting that part would be difficult. Oliver just felt likeable. I felt it would…

— Nicole Holofcener

“Everyone was driven to write.It was Gorky's fault--he had announced that "literature should be written by working people",and showed with his own example that…

— Anatoli Rybakov

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

I'm not going to get into the writer's skills or what he was trying to portray because that's not fair. I can only say…

— Taylor Dane

“Writing is one of the loneliest of the arts; unlike the actor we have no immediate audience and must wait many long months, even…

— Bryan Forbes