English - Author | June 20, 1933 -
The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.
Claire Tomalin
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As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.
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By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.
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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.
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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.
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I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.
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Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.
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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.
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I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.
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If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start afterwards and then work a full day with a break for lunch.
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When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.
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It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.
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