Trevor Phillips Quotes

I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.

Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them.

'Bleak House' remains a great novel for me, and I love 'David Copperfield.'

One of my favourite books when I was young was 'Wuthering Heights.'

I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me.

I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland.

I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get into it. About seven years later, I rediscovered Hardy and consumed four of his novels in a row.

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

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."

I was shocked by the reaction I got for Bleak House. It was very intensive but one of the best jobs of my life. It was a chance to play a character that grows and develops and I was very enmeshed in it. But I didn't realise how stylish it was and how much people would love it.

Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.

I majored in English in college and that was my major in graduate school before switching to creative writing. I read a lot of [Charles] Dickens and [Anthony ] Trollope, but there was lots of stuff I hadn't read like Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," which is so well written and funny.

I've recently rediscovered Anthony Trollope. I used to read him back in college, and a friend turned me on to a whole new series of his work, 'The Palliser Series.' It's a series of seven or eight books.

As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment journalism while marginally fulfilling premedical requirements.

My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

With its vastly complicated plot and its immense cast of characters swirling around the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce that has been grinding away in the Court of Chancery for decades, 'Bleak House' is, for many readers, Dickens's greatest novel.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that era. I mean, George Eliot is my absolute heroine.

Dickens belongs to the English people.

I loved 'Middlemarch,' I think that's one of my favourite books of all time, actually.

'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.

The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.