Dickens Quotes

"W.C. Fields had his own ideas about playing Mr Micawber in The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, and Observation of David Copperfield, the Younger (1935). He wanted to include a juggling routine and when I said (Charles Dickens) never mentioned Micawber juggling, he said, `He probably forgot`."

If you have this enormous talent, it`s got you by the balls, it`s a demon. You can`t be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn`t that nice a guy.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Shakespeare, Dickens, Mark Twain, and so many others were my dearest friends and greatest teachers.

Dickens loved the idea of a cliff-hanger and delivered the novel in instalments. I have an idea he would have loved television drama.

My father read Dickens out loud. My mother would say `We`re going to the workhouse`. This to me was real. I was headed for the gruel.

I`m shy of comparisons to Dickens because he`s one of the absolute greats and it`s silly to compare a contemporary novelist with someone.

I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.

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.

Why do an infinite number of monkeys always want to type "Hamlet"? What`s wrong with "Macbeth"? Why not something by Dickens or Poe?