"After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of……" — Claire Tomalin
"After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters."
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45 Quotes by Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin has 45 quotes on this site.
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Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of…
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Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of…
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Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be…
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All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.
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Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it…
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People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by…
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I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.
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I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.
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Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.
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Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th…
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In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.
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Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker,…
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about…
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Casting ethnic characters is a very hard thing to do, but it's important. It's also interesting.
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You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
— Victoria Abril
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Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These…
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I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political…
— Margaret Atwood
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All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which…
— Margaret Atwood
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Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
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For some reason, all my characters come to me with their names attached to them. I never have to search…
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than…
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I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.
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I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it…
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I don't have acknowledged preferences of characters.
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