I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.


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It's always helpful to have somebody help buoy you in difficult times and problem-solve with and...
JANE POYNTER
When my father died, my mother came back from being Mrs. Birkin to being Judy Campbell. She was a st...
JANE BIRKIN
Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot o...
JANE FONDA
I have a theory that you can tell what the head of a company is like by the people who work there. I...
JANE GREEN
Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are ple...
JANE YOLEN
Melanoma is not the most common of skin cancers, but it is the most dangerous if not found in the ea...
JANE GREEN
Torture is illegal, both in the U.S. and abroad. So - and that is true for the Bush administration a...
JANE MAYER
I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. ...
JANE GOODALL
I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz it's helpful because people ...
JANE CURTIN
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any...
JANE GOODSELL
I love nothing better than to get all the nuts and bolts out of the way - show up on time, with line...
JANE ELLIOT
I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to eve...
JANE BADLER
No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 ...
JANE PAULEY
There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings....
JANE LINDSKOLD
I loved 'Boogie Nights.' That was a great movie, and I had a lot of fun doing that.
THOMAS JANE
If we as a nation are to break the cycle of poverty, crime and the growing underclass of young peopl...
JANE FONDA
Marriage, for a woman at least, hampers the two things that made life to me glorious -- friendship a...
JANE HARRISON
Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its ori...
JANE PORTER
A lot of actresses I've worked with recently have done so much Botox their faces don't look ...
JANE SEYMOUR
I should think he must be rather a dressy man for his time of life. Such a number of looking-glasses...
JANE AUSTEN
I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.
CALAMITY JANE
We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
CALAMITY JANE
While in El Paso, I met Mr. Clinton Burk, a native of Texas, who I married in August 1885.
CALAMITY JANE
During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
CALAMITY JANE
I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the ...
CALAMITY JANE
On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least th...
CALAMITY JANE
Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden ...
CALAMITY JANE
As many of the riders before me had been held up and robbed of their packages, mail and money that t...
CALAMITY JANE
We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous...
CALAMITY JANE
When I joined Custer I donned the uniform of a soldier. It was a bit awkward at first but I soon got...
CALAMITY JANE
It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick s...
CALAMITY JANE
By the time we reached Virginia City I was considered a remarkable good shot and a fearless rider fo...
CALAMITY JANE
I actually failed my first license test. I got an automatic fail. I guess I had been doing well but ...
JANE LEVY
You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for.
JANE FONDA
You want, in a sense, to relate to the main character, so often, the main character POV is a bit mor...
JANE GOLDMAN
Thank God I've never had the sort of intense fame that means you can't walk up the road. Tha...
JANE ASHER
What strange creatures brothers are!
JANE AUSTEN
...the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety.
JANE AUSTEN
[I]f a book is well written, I always find it too short.
JANE AUSTEN
Angry people are not always wise.
JANE AUSTEN
I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But...
JANE AUSTEN
The conversation soon turned upon fishing, and she heard Mr. Darcy invite him, with the greatest civ...
JANE AUSTEN
Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk ...
JANE AUSTEN