Top Dickens Quotes
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Jane Birkin
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
Lloyd Alexander
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
Donna Tartt
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
Anne Rice
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.
Shelby Foote
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I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Jane Birkin 
63% of people like this quote
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
Lloyd Alexander
60% of people like this quote
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
Donna Tartt
56% of people like this quote
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
Anne Rice
54% of people like this quote
If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.
Shelby Foote
54% of people like this quote
If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.
Dustin Hoffman
53% of people like this quote
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
Ben Okri
52% of people like this quote
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
49% of people like this quote
Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.
Terry Prachett
48% of people like this quote