Burn Gorman Quotes

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

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

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

I've never finished anything by Dickens.

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

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

Dickens belongs to the English people.

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

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."

But since doing the film ["The Invisible Woman"] I've really learned to appreciate [Charles Dickens], he's phenomenal. "Great Expectations" would be one of my favorites.

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's final book, 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood,' forms the jumping-off point for my new novel, 'The Last Dickens'. This last work by Dickens has very little social commentary and a pretty tightly efficient storyline and cast of characters. Not necessarily what we think of when we think what characterizes Dickens.

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.

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

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 is always full of surprises.

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.

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

A lot of the novels that I've really enjoyed in my life, whether it's Tolstoy's 'Cossacks,' or 'Sons and Lovers' or 'Jude the Obscure' or 'David Copperfield' or 'Herzog,' have an autobiographical spine.

Everyone should see 'A Nightmare Before Christmas,' hear 'London Calling,' and read 'Great Expectations.'

Some writers you return to again and again, and for me, Nancy Mitford is one of them.

As a schoolboy, I loved Charles Dickens. His 'David Copperfield' has had the strongest influence on me - I looked up to David Copperfield as a role model.