Biographies Quote by Claire Tomalin Download Open image “Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.” — Claire Tomalin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biographies Biography Charles Charles Dickens Dickens Five Like Writing
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
Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine. — Robert Eggers 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
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've been influenced by so many different writers along the way - from Charles Dickens, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, John D. McDonald, and so… — Jim Starlin Copy Share Image
I read a lot when I was at college, but really, only a few of Dickens's books work for me. — Sue Perkins Copy Share Image
“I wonder if Dickens knew he was writing historical fiction when he wrote his many novels.” — Michael Kroft Copy Share Image
Every novel is a biography. Well, then, this is a novel [The Paper Men] which is a biography that is pretending to be an… — William Golding Copy Share Image
I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and… — Elizabeth Gaskell 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
The thing about Dickens is you either love him or you hate him and I fell in love with Dickens, I fell in love… — George Brandis 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
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
