"People who attack biography choose as their models……" — Claire Tomalin
"People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels."
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Claire Tomalin
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45 Quotes by Claire Tomalin
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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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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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After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
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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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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be…
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall…
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I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands,…
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries…
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few…
— Daniel Boone
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then…
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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay,…
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