Author: Claire Tomalin

Quotes

When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they're going to marry, when they're going to die. It's strange to feel so omniscient.

When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they're going to marry, when they're going to die. It's strange to feel so omniscient.

- Claire Tomalin

Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.

Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write.

- Claire Tomalin

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

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

- Claire Tomalin

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

- Claire Tomalin

Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.

Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.

- Claire Tomalin

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.

- Claire Tomalin

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.

- 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 life.

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 life.

- Claire Tomalin

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