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If Nora Roberts were a man, she'd be on the cover of big business magazines as the next Charles Dickens.

~Ann Maxwell

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Not until somebody turns round and says, 'Art, how do you fancy playing Charles Dickens? How do you fancy playing Prince Charles in this biopic?' Until those movements come, then no, we haven't got past anything.

~Art Malik

Topics: Anything Art Charles Charles Dickens Come Dickens Fancy Got How Movements Past Playing Prince Round Says Somebody Then Those Turns Until You

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I am greatly impressed with the BBC's TV adaption of Charles Dickens' 'Bleak House.' The costumes, the sets, the acting and the screenplay are all superb. Every episode is riveting.

~Cecilia Dart-Thornton

Topics: Acting Am Bleak Charles Charles Dickens Costumes Dickens Episode Every Greatly House Impressed Screenplay Sets Superb Tv I Am Bbc

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Many books have mattered enormously to my life and work. 'David Copperfield' by Charles Dickens would be one of several contenders for 'most influential.' I first read it at 13 and have reread it dozens of times since.

~Cheryl Mendelson

Topics: Books Charles Charles Dickens David Dickens Dozens First Influential Life Many Mattered Most My Life Read Several Since Times Work Would

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Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Ambitious America Charles Charles Dickens Demonic Dickens Everyone Finds Giver Good Good Works Hater Helper Lover Magician Man Needy Orphans Own Parties Protector Radical Reporter Republican Tireless Traveler Version Walker Worker Works Young Young Man

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Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Biographies Biography Charles Charles Dickens Dickens Five Like Writing

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I grew up watching period dramas, as we all did in the 1980s and '90s - endless adaptations of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens - and I loved them. But I never saw anyone like me in them, so I decided to find a story to erode the excuses for me not doing one.

~David Oyelowo

Topics: Adaptation Anyone Austen Charles Charles Dickens Decided Dickens Did Doing Dramas Endless Excuses Find Grew Jane Jane Austen Like Loved Me Never Period Saw Story Them Up Watching 1980S

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My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.

~Debbie Macomber

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I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

~Frank Black

Topics: Charles Charles Dickens Cool Cool Thing Dickens Going Great Hey Judge Liberating Listen Lot Music People Really Rock Rock Music Saying Thing

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In his life, Charles Dickens was like the rest of us, but maybe more so: another poor and wonderful soul attempting to deal with his and the world's pain and confusion in the best way he knew how.

~Fred Kaplan

Topics: Another Attempting Best Best Way Charles Charles Dickens Confusion Deal Dickens He His How Knew Life Like Maybe More Pain Poor Rest Soul Us Way Wonderful World

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