#dickens

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 enough. ↗

— Anne Rice

#dickens #enough #everyone #him #his

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces. ↗

— Anne Rice

#dickens #driving #forces #i #mentor

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood. ↗

— Shaun Cassidy

#dickensian #had #i #kind

What can I say? I deal with it. I think I have come to terms with my absolutely hateful and vile childhood. No, I have, really. But I did hate it at the time. I resented it. There were elements of it that were positively Dickensian. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#childhood #come #deal #dickensian #did

The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London. ↗

— Martin Scorsese

#charles #corner #dickens #east #end

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#greater #heard #heaven #himself #i

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#characters #dickens #even #i #i love

You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#eugene-wrayburn #our-mutual-friend #life

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#love #our-mutual-friend #love

Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!) ↗

— Nick Hornby

#humor #writing #humor