Top 72 Quotes by Claire Tomalin

I always try to travel light.

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

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.

Dickens was very practical and sensible.

It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.

Dickens belongs to the English people.

The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.

I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.

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.

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.