Charles Dickens Quotes about Writing

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There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens

Book, Reading, Writing

Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist”, p.97, Cosimo, Inc.

Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.

Charles Dickens

Reading, Writing, Character

Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.165

Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up...

Charles Dickens

Writing, Fire, Hair

Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.

Charles Dickens

Writing, Names, Forgiving

Charles Dickens (2016). “Great Expectations”, p.378, Xist Publishing

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.

Charles Dickens

Writing, Support, Events

It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.

Charles Dickens

Writing, Hands, Would Be

Charles Dickens (2006). “David Copperfield”, p.400, Penguin

To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.

Charles Dickens

Love, Writing, Ambition

Charles Dickens (2016). “David Copperfield (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.291, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

Charles Dickens

Writing, First Love, Should Have

Charles Dickens (2009). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.82, Cosimo, Inc.

Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.

Charles Dickens

Reading, Believe, Writing

"David Copperfield". Volume I,

What is natural in me, is natural in many other men, I infer, and so I am not afraid to write that I never had loved Steerforth better than when the ties that bound me to him were broken. In the keen distress of the discovery of his unworthiness, I thought more of all that was brilliant in him, I softened more towards all that was good in him, I did more justice to the qualities that might have made him a man of a noble nature and a great name, than ever I had done in the height of my devotion to him.

Charles Dickens

Writing, Character, Men

Charles Dickens (2012). “Four Novels: Great Expectations, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Hard Times”, p.997, Graphic Arts Books