Claire Tomalin quote

I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.
Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin
Claire Tomalin
Born: Jun 20, 1933

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