She read Dickens in the spirit in which she would have eloped with him.
I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.
My favourite authors include Trollope and Dickens.
Familial love can find an echo in our own hearts just as it did in that of Charles Dickens.
I always felt like I was right out of Dickens, looking in the window of the Christmas feast, but not at the feast.
Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.
Taking the humour out of Dickens, it's not Dickens any more.
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.
