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Dickens Quotes

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my husband had him of Picture Quote #1

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page Picture Quote #1

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing Picture Quote #1

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is Picture Quote #1

Dickens is always full of surprises Picture Quote #1

She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him Picture Quote #1

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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene Picture Quote #1

Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book Picture Quote #1

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath Picture Quote #1

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces Picture Quote #1

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers Picture Quote #1

The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept - and I’m sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ series led to similar tears Picture Quote #1

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I’m kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother’s a children’s librarian, and all of the children’s literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn’t children’s literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world Picture Quote #1

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century Picture Quote #1

The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it’s the bloody butchery of ‘Hamlet,’ the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from ‘The Great Gatsby.’ Picture Quote #1

I’m not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It’s a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I’m not going to judge Picture Quote #1

At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself Picture Quote #1

At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel as carefully planned and constructed as those of George Eliot, but with the narrative energy of Dickens Picture Quote #1

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I’ve behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven’t behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you’re a woman, you’re not in a position to behave as badly, because you don’t have the economic power Picture Quote #1

The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go Picture Quote #1

Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens Picture Quote #1

I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens Picture Quote #1

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I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer ‘Turn of the Screw.’ He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences Picture Quote #1

Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler Picture Quote #1

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 Dickens, because that was what there was Picture Quote #1

My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right Picture Quote #1

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters Picture Quote #1

The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular Picture Quote #1

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I cannot tell what the dickens his name is my husband had him of (Dickens Quotes) Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page (Dickens Quotes) Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing (Dickens Quotes) I cannot tell what the dickens his name is (Dickens Quotes) Dickens is always full of surprises (Dickens Quotes) She read Dickens in the same spirit she would have eloped with him (Dickens Quotes) I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene (Dickens Quotes) Bleak House by Charles Dickens is my favourite book (Dickens Quotes) Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath (Dickens Quotes) I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces (Dickens Quotes) Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers (Dickens Quotes) The emotions triggered by fiction are very real. When Charles Dickens wrote about the death of Little Nell in the 1840s, people wept - and I’m sure that the death of characters in J.K. Rowling’s ‘Harry Potter’ series led to similar tears. (Dickens Quotes) I’m kind of a reluctant Anglophile. My mother’s a children’s librarian, and all of the children’s literature I read was from her childhood - E. Nesbit and Dickens, which isn’t children’s literature at all, but I was sort of steeped in English literature. I thought I was of that world. (Dickens Quotes) Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century. (Dickens Quotes) The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it’s the bloody butchery of ‘Hamlet,’ the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from ‘The Great Gatsby.’ (Dickens Quotes) I’m not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It’s a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I’m not going to judge. (Dickens Quotes) At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected you to copy out, say, 20 or 30 pages from one of the school texts. But I found that rather than laboriously copying out something from a novel by Charles Dickens, it was easier if I made it up myself. (Dickens Quotes) At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel as carefully planned and constructed as those of George Eliot, but with the narrative energy of Dickens. (Dickens Quotes) I’ve behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven’t behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you’re a woman, you’re not in a position to behave as badly, because you don’t have the economic power. (Dickens Quotes) The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go. (Dickens Quotes) Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction. (Dickens Quotes) 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. (Dickens Quotes) In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens. (Dickens Quotes) I would happily storm hell in the company of these troops ... how strongly they have demonstrated to the world that free men and women can fight like the dickens. (Dickens Quotes) I have only read very classic traditional English ghost stories, other than Henry James, who wrote some magnificent short ones as well as the longer ‘Turn of the Screw.’ He, Dickens, and M.R. James are my influences. (Dickens Quotes) Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler. (Dickens Quotes) 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 Dickens, because that was what there was. (Dickens Quotes) My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right. (Dickens Quotes) After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters (Dickens Quotes) The thing I love about Dickens is the omniscient, omnipotent narrator, and the great confidence of the narrator, which marks 19th-century novelists in general and Dickens in particular. (Dickens Quotes)

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