English - Author | June 20, 1933 -
All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.
Claire Tomalin
PeopleBehaveBadlyWriters
The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.
FunnyAliveYoungDickens
I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.
PeopleSayingThinkAlwaysOver
I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.
I AmKnowWhoPatheticSoundsAm
I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.
LoveYesWholeReadWorksFell
I think it's quite normal for people to have love affairs.
LovePeopleThinkNormalI Think
I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
HistoryPastPeopleProblemsThought
I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.
DisasterWorkingConvincedTotal
My life was a sort of series of random disasters.
LifeRandomMy LifeDisastersSort
In 2007, several musicologists contacted me at about the same time, expressing interest in the work of the mysterious Muriel Herbert, a few of whose songs they had come across.
WorkTimeMeMysteriousSameWhose
When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they're going to marry, when they're going to die. It's strange to feel so omniscient.
GodFeelDieYouFeelingKnow
I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.
WorkChildrenJobThinkingEvening
Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Claire Tomalin quotes