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.
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.
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.
I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.
I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.
Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.
I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.
I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.
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.
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.
I hadn't read the novel Bleak House . I'd read Dickens, but not this novel. I'd read several of his great novels, though I think it's different if you read them when you're young. You appreciate the storytelling, the stand-out characters, but you don't appreciate his ability as a writer, the depth of his humanity. He writes about everything, the rich, the poor, the prisons, the law courts, the country houses, the orphans and the families. I read the script for Bleak House and I was tentative about it. I'd told the producers, 'I don't do television.' But they charmed me and I did actually read the novel. I was captivated.
Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.
Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.
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