Dickens – Quotes

My mother read secondarily

My mother read secondarily for information; she sank as a hedonist into novels. She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him. Eudora Welty

She read Dickens in

She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him. Eudora Welty

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. Elizabeth Gilbert

I think poets are

I think poets are supposed to be writing for television and film. I grew up in the day of early TV that was so raw and funny, and I think we’re in the next important moment of television, where it’s really telling the epic of the culture like Charles Dickens was doing in the 19th … Read more

Stephen King has the

Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say. Frederick Busch

We are herding the

We are herding the young in that direction so that they are not sitting still and contemplating, Goddamn it, a page of exquisite prose by Charles Dickens, which is filled with rage about poverty and the need of a household to survive. That’s not in the table for consideration now. And people don’t understand that … Read more

Great Expectations [book by

Great Expectations [book by Charles Dickens] has been described as \”Dickens’s harshest indictment of society.\” Which it is. After all, it’s about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money. Felix Dennis

I think that when

I think that when [Charles] Dickens met Nelly [Ternan] it unleashed this sort of carnal, anarchic, cruel energy within him, and literally after she met him he changed his whole life – he separated from [his wife] Catherine, he stopped all the children from seeing her and went on this bitter rampage. Felicity Jones

I was into Virginia

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn’t that cool. Felicity Jones

I studied English literature

I studied English literature at university, but for some reason we only spent one week on [Charles] Dickens, so I remember just trying to find the shortest book that I could find. I was like, \”‘Hard Times,’ really great – it’s short, that’ll do it.\” Felicity Jones