Terry Pratchett Quotes

I claim Dickens as a mentor. He's my teacher. He's one of my driving forces.

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.

Dickens belongs to the English people.

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog.

I've never finished anything by Dickens.

I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.

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

If Al Gore invented the Internet, I invented spell check.

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.

You can do gross-out until the cows come home but if there isn't something to balance it, then it's not going to work at all.

Dickens is always full of surprises.

At university, one of my areas of study was Victorian literature, so I decided to see if I could write a novel as carefully planned and constructed as those of George Eliot, but with the narrative energy of Dickens.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

Jane Austen is very amusing.

I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

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

Considering what a prolific writer Dickens was, the word 'Dickensian' could legitimately cover a vast thematic territory, explaining at least some of the variety of its applications.

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.

I love Oscar Wilde, still the wittiest writer of anyone, dead or living.

My whole life is classical now. Except my wife. I don't have a classical wife. I have a classy wife, but I don't have a classical wife.

Capra's great passion was Dickens. As soon as he had some money, he bought some of the rarest and most extraordinary editions of Dickens's work, and he was very proud of his collection.

I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.