Bits Quote by Tracy Letts

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

— Shaun Cassidy

What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I…

— Richard Griffiths

My childhood was very gregarious, and I was usually surrounded by close family.

— Stephen Mangan

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

— Harry Lloyd

We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.

— Alan Bennett

My neighborhood in South London was very Dickensian.

— Roger Rees

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites…

— Maya Angelou

I had this almost Dickensian look. I was quite fragile.

— Rod Stewart

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

We were brought up in a very happy family and I can't whinge about my childhood because it was idyllic.

— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

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

“I snorted. “They still make you read Dickens in school? Great Expectations?” “Yeah.” “You can stay at home and hide if you want—and wind…

— Jim Butcher