Claire Tomalin Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

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Claire Tomalin quotes and sayings page 6 (author). Here's quote # 51 through 60 out of the 72 we have.

Claire Tomalin Quotes
“The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.”
Claire Tomalin Quotes
“The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.”
Claire Tomalin Quotes
“The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.”
Claire Tomalin Quotes
“When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.”
Claire Tomalin Quotes
“Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.”
Claire Tomalin Quotes
“Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.”
Claire Tomalin Quotes
“Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them.”
Claire Tomalin Quotes
“Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.”
“Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.”
Claire Tomalin Quotes
“I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing.”

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