theparisreview:“I didn’t react immediately, but eventually David Copperfield made me wan
theparisreview:“I didn’t react immediately, but eventually David Copperfield made me want to do what Dickens had done—make a world that’s somehow better in focus than real life, which goes rushing past you. He showed me how to do it too.”—Shelby Foote on Charles Dickens, born today in 1812. -- source link