Anne Rice Quotes

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

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.

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

I've never finished anything by Dickens.

Dickens belongs to the English people.

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

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

Let's face it: the 19th century really was the great age of the novel - Melville, Hawthorne, Tolstoy. These are the people I really admire.

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.

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

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

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 had never read Victorian novels before going overseas. I read a handful of authors, but I had not immersed myself in the literature of the 19th century.

When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.

Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

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 is always full of surprises.

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today.

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.

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.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

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'm obsessed with the Victorian novel. I can't help it. I feel like the novel then was so powerful and agile in ways I'm not sure it is now.

I'm an old-fashioned English lit. man. Straight down the line - it's George Eliot, it's Dickens, it's Dr. Johnson, it's Jane Austen.