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I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

Dickens writes such brilliant characters and stories, and his themes and social commentary are still so relevant. I think that's why he's still so loved today.

I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is Oliver Twist? And yet he takes such joy in populating the rest of his novels with these fantastic, grotesque people like Pecksmith and so on.

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure could plot.

Dickens belongs to the English people.

I'm totally obsessed with Dickens, and 'Great Expectations' was one of the first book's I read when I was still in school in Porthcawl.

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.