Claire Tomalin Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

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

“I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.”

“I have been left-wing always, from childhood.”

“It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.”

“My life was a sort of series of random disasters.”

“Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans.”

“Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.”

“'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.”

“'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else.”