English - Author | June 20, 1933 -
People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels.
Claire Tomalin
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I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.
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I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.
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I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.
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The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.
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I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.
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After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
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Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.
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Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
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In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.
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Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.
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Dickens belongs to the English people.
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