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
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.
Alex Morrison
Why do an infinite number of monkeys always want to type "Hamlet"? What`s wrong with "Macbeth"? Why not something by Dickens or Poe?
Barbara Wood
