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“Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books.' A story reflects life but also redeems it: assembled on the page, even unpredictable events can be plotted, their random scatter made part of a meaningful design.”
― The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
― The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
“(On Dickens) No other writer is quite as good at making marriage vows about remaining together "till death us do part" sound more like a suicide pact.”
― Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
― Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist
“Dickens gave his readers history on a human scale.”
― The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
― The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
“Papers’, which deals with the”
― The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
― The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
“edging his way closer to the writing of a novel in which he would remind his readers that telegrams and railways weren’t the only ways in which they were all connected.”
― The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
― The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
“his style. “Brighten it, brighten it, brighten it!” he once instructed his subeditor W. H. Wills, after reading an article that was insufficiently “Dickensian”
― The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
― The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
“unfamiliar lens; repeatedly, he takes the raw materials of life and reshapes them into teasing fragments of narrative. All that is missing is a plot where they can snap into place.”
― The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
― The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
“translation. The first indication that Carroll”
― The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
― The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland
“immediately noticed the “splendid library, of course, with soft carpet, couches etc, such as became a sympathiser with the suffering classes.” Her withering conclusion was “How can we sufficiently pity the needy unless we know fully the blessings of the plenty?” This autumn she”
― The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
― The Turning Point: 1851--A Year That Changed Charles Dickens and the World
