Quotes by : Claire Tomalin

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

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....

Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby....

'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed....

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

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....