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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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When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

~Alan King

Topics: About Because Dickens Father First First Time He Jewish Oppression Read Talked Things Thought Time Wrote

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It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.

~Ally Carter

Topics: Austen Been Believe Better Between Books Dead Dickens Easy Europeans Every Every Time First First Time Great Great Stories Had Knew Lessons Outsiders People Real Real People Realized Saw Shakespeare Stories Time Write Written

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I'm sure I've been influenced by every fine writer I've ever read, from Dickens and Austen to Auden and Jane Hirshfield. And also, the short stories of Updike, Cheever, Munro, Alice Adams, and Doris Lessing. And the plays of Oscar Wilde. And paintings by Alice Neel and Matisse.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Alice Also Austen Been Dickens Ever Every Fine Influenced Jane Oscar Oscar Wilde Paintings Plays Read Short Short Stories Stories Sure Wilde Writer

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When I was a little girl, I thought I was Sydney Carton in Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' I don't think anyone else did.

~Amy Bloom

Topics: Anyone Anyone Else Cities Dickens Did Else Girl Little Little Girl Sydney Tale Think Thought Two

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What great writers have done to cities is not to tell us what happens in them, but to remember what they think happened or, indeed, might have happened. And so Dickens reinvented London, Joyce, Dublin, and so on.

~Andre Aciman

Topics: Cities Dickens Done Dublin Great Happened Happens Indeed Joyce London Might Remember Tell Them Think Us Writers

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An adaptation I was working on of Trollope's 'The Pallisers' has been axed by the BBC... I was also going to do Dickens' 'Dombey and Son' but they've asked me to do 'David Copperfield' instead.

~Andrew Davies

Topics: Adaptation Also Asked Been David Dickens Going Instead Me Son Working Bbc

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Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.

~Andrew Davies

Topics: Any Dickens Humour More Out Taking

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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

Topics: Big Big Business Business Charles Charles Dickens Cover Dickens Magazines Man Next Roberts She Were

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

~Anne Rice

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