I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.
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I had a kind of Dickensian childhood.
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.
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.
We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.
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.
When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.
If you're going to be related to someone it might as well be Dickens.
I didn't want to be stuck in Dickens period dramas because then I would never know if I was any good.
I was brought up on Dickens. I remember reading 'Bleak House' but, coming back to it, I didn't remember much about it apart from a few characters.
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
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