Biographies Quote by Claire Tomalin

“Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.”

— Claire Tomalin

I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.

— Claire Tomalin

I would like to have a more social life than I have.

— Claire Tomalin

I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.

— Claire Tomalin

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

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

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.

— Claire Tomalin

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

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

Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.

— Claire Tomalin

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

Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.

— Claire Tomalin