I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes -… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.” — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.'… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
