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

Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page.

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 never even had the time to read novels.

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'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.

I've never abandoned the novel.

I was terribly upset not to be in 'Dickensian,' so I pretend to look down on it. The part I should have played, Mrs. Gamp, is done brilliantly by Pauline Collins, but I entered this world for no other reason than to play that part.

I don't remember ever having finished a book.