Quotes by : Claire Tomalin

As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and....

'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential....

I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started....

He could take on anything and everything, it seemed, rather than leave himself time to reflect on his....

Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather....

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

Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation,....

The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests....

Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head....