Lev Grossman Quotes

I get sent a lot of scripts which feature him as a kind of all-purpose Victorian literary character and really understand little, if anything, about him, his life or his books.

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

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.

My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.

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

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

Dickens belongs to the English people.

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.

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

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

Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.

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

One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.

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

I love the tradition of Dickens, where even the most minor walk-on characters are twitching and particular and alive.

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.

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

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 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.

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.

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

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

Dickens was born in 1812 and died in 1870, having produced fifteen novels, many of which can confidently be called great, as well as having accomplished outstanding work in activities into which his insatiable need to expend his vast energies - to achieve, to prevail - carried him: journalism, editing, acting, social reform.

The contemporary authors I most admire are Nick Hornby and Jonathan Tropper.