Claire Tomalin Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Claire Tomalin quotes and sayings page 5 (author). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 72 we have.
“I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.”
“I was very priggish as a child. I saved up for a book on medieval English nunneries, for which I was despised by my friends.”
“I would like to have a more social life than I have.”
“I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.”
“I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.”
“I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.”
“In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.”
“It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.”
“Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.”
“Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.”
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