#dickens

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We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.


Alan Bennett


#dickens #had #humanity #me #never

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens.


Jodi Picoult


#also #awareness #commentary #dickens #fiction

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.


Terry Prachett


#got #his #home #know #never

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

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

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.


Charles Dickens


#charles-dickens #age

You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do." What do you make, Madam ?" Many things." For instance ---" For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly , Shrouds." The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive .


Charles Dickens


#france #funny #humor #mob #revolution

A Dickens character to me is a theatrical projection of a character. Not that it isn't real. It's real, but in that removed sense. But Sherlock Holmes is simply there. I would be astonished if I went to 221 1/2 B Baker Street and didn't find him." [An Invitation to Learning, January 1942]


Rex Stout


#dickens #larger-than-life #novels #presence #realism

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...


Charles Dickens


#great-expectations #melancholy

It was my angry, Dickensian novel, I suppose. It was cathartic - I expended a lot of frustration on that one.


Richard Helms


#cathartic #dickensian #expended #frustration #i