After Quote by Claire Tomalin Download Open image “After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.” — Claire Tomalin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare After Characters Creator Dickens Great Multiple Shakespeare
I admire Charles Dickens, mostly for the texture of his writing and the colourful characters he created. His work gives us, I think, a… — David Essex Copy Share Image
I admire Dickens beyond words. He is one of the greatest plotters of all times. Didn't have a clue about women, but he sure… — Donna Leon Copy Share Image
Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to be read, particularly in the twentieth century, as a social commentator… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield, who is… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
As a creator of character his peculiarity is that he creates wherever his eyes rest ... With such a power at his command Dickens… — Virginia Woolf 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
At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other… — Lesley Nicol Copy Share Image
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there… — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
I was strictly after hits when it came down to the Jackson 5. That's all I was concerned with. — Deke Richards Copy Share Image
It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
No lusting after your neighbor's house - or wife or servant or maid or ox or donkey. Don't set your heart on anything that… — Moses Copy Share Image
After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
When good media takes a bounded form, and comes once in a period of time, it begs to be consumed as a whole -… — John Battelle Copy Share Image
Markets are designed to allow individuals to look after their private needs and to pursue profit. It's really a great invention and I wouldn't… — George Soros Copy Share Image
I have a lot of success and make a good living, but after while, you start going 'Why? Why are you doing all this?' — Tyra Banks Copy Share Image
See to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
I went to school at night in L.A. to brush up on my engineering while I applied to the astronaut program. I really did… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Sometimes after a compliment about my characterization skills, I'm asked if I model my characters on real people. Emphatically, no. And sort of, yes. — Brent Weeks Copy Share Image
