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I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.

Dickens belongs to the English people.

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

I'm not a Dickens guy. In grad school I had to take at least one course on the Victorians, so I took The Later Dickens, because that was what there was.

I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.

I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.

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

Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.