Best Claire Tomalin Quotes
- Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. Actor
- I always try to travel light. Always Try
- Dickens was very practical and sensible. Dickens
- I have been fascinated by Dickens worshippers who strenuously deny that he did anything wrong in relation to his wife, even though the record is… Anything Wrong
- All writers behave badly. All people behave badly. All
- The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny. Alive
- I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious. Fell
- My life was a sort of series of random disasters. Disasters
- In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose… Across
- I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered:… Books
- I have been left-wing always, from childhood. Been
- Dickens is always full of surprises. Always Full
- Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans. Cared
- As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the… All
- Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his… Coming
- Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington. Father
- I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again. Always Happy
- Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films. Books
- I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there… Book
- Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs. Activity