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Dickens Definition

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

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.
George Saintsbury

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.
Anne Rice

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

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

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

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
Goldwin Smith

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Jane Birkin

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

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

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

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.
Dustin Hoffman

If you want to study writing, read Dickens. That's how to study writing, or Faulkner, or D.H. Lawrence, or John Keats. They can teach you everything you need to know about writing.
Shelby Foote

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

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

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