Aunt Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.

— Michel Faber

I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later…

— Lev Grossman

“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

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

— Shaun Cassidy

“Customer: Did Charles Dickens ever write anything fun?”

— Jen Campbell

I started reading Dickens when I was about 12, and I particularly liked all of the orphan books. I always liked books about young…

— John Boyne

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination,…

— Ronald Frame

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

I hadn't read Dickens for a while and doing 'Bleak House' was great.

— Denis Lawson

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

— Terry Pratchett

“One must be prepared to fight for one’s simple pleasures and to defend them against elegance and erudition and all manner of glamorous enticements.…

— Amor Towles

When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we…

— Dermot Healy