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Dickens is always full of surprises.
Dickens belongs to the English people.
Dickens was very practical and sensible.
I've never finished anything by Dickens.
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.
Tolkien is as good as Dickens at sketching a scene.
I will fight like the dickens to protect Social Security.
Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.
Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.
The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.
Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans.
Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.
Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.
Any question about narrative storytelling is answered by Dickens.
I hadn't read Dickens for a while and doing 'Bleak House' was great.
Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.
If you're going to be related to someone it might as well be Dickens.
She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.
After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me.
Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.
Shakespeare speaks for the human heart but Dickens speaks for the social man and for injustices.
Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
I like to do really good things. But 'good' - witness Charles Dickens - doesn't mean 'not popular.'
I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.
In 1978, when I was 17 and in my first year at university, I read approximately 3,500 pages of Dickens.
If Nora Roberts were a man, she'd be on the cover of big business magazines as the next Charles Dickens.
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.
Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
People return to the same things. Charles Dickens wrote the same story a million times - and 'A Christmas Carol.'
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.
I want people to be open to the idea of sitting down and reading a Dickens book. They will also have a great time.
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
Something went wrong with my right arm. I no longer could throw hard, and it hurt like the dickens every time I threw.
When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think anyone else did.
I love the holidays - any holiday - but Christmas has always been sort of special because I grew up reading Charles Dickens.
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.