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• Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time,…
• Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of…
• Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about…
• All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.
• Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my…
• People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad…
• I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.
• I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.
• After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
• Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.
• Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
• In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

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