Top 72 Quotes by Claire Tomalin

About Claire Tomalin

These are some quotes by English author Claire Tomalin Author, who was born on June 20, 1933.

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

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

Claire Tomalin

One of my most vivid memories of the mid-1950s is of crying into a washbasin full of soapy grey baby clothes - there were no washing machines - while my handsome and adored husband was off playing football in the park on Sunday morning with all the delightful young men who had been friends to both of us at Cambridge three years earlier.

Claire Tomalin

Dickens was very practical and sensible.

Dickens was very practical and sensible.

Claire Tomalin

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

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

Claire Tomalin

Dickens belongs to the English people.

Dickens belongs to the English people.

Claire Tomalin

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

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

Claire Tomalin

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

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

Claire Tomalin

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.

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.

Claire Tomalin

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.

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.

Claire Tomalin

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.

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.

Claire Tomalin

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