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Claire Tomalin

Claire Tomalin

English Author

Born: Jun 20, 1933

About Always Dickens Life People You

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My life was a sort of series of random disasters. Claire Tomalin

Life Random My Life Disasters Sort Series

All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends. Claire Tomalin

Me People About Remain Written Perhaps Friends Closest Closest Friends

I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book. Claire Tomalin

Sad Book Feel Come Always End

The book doesn't end when you finish writing it. Claire Tomalin

You Book Writing Finish End

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

Great Characters Shakespeare Dickens After Multiple Creator

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

Today Christmas Emerged Part Know How Dickens Celebration Century Whole

In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad. Claire Tomalin

Everybody Hungry Bad Were Conditions Very Unemployed

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters. Claire Tomalin

World Characters London Knows His Dickens Whole

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

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

Life Would More Like Than Social Social Life

I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power. Claire Tomalin

Life Hope You Woman My Life Power Way Economic Economic Power Badly Because Dickens Behave Behaved Position

Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings. Claire Tomalin

Lover Dickens Human Human Beings Beings

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. Claire Tomalin

Book Saved Despised Up Friends Very Child Which English Medieval

When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common. Claire Tomalin

Depression Think Diary Quite Common Realised Kept

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

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I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts. Claire Tomalin

Good Society Put Concert Concerts Very Richmond Who Belong

Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor. Claire Tomalin

Superb Russell Shakespeare Simon Speaker Actor Incomparable

Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner. Claire Tomalin

Today Programmes Corner Television Dreadful Attention Attention Spans Because Very Short Being Children Which Spans Flickering Away

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny. Claire Tomalin

Funny Young Alive Self-Confident Dickens

I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am. Claire Tomalin

Know Am Sounds Pathetic Who

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