Claire Tomalin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I've been trying to garden all my life - it just happens that I haven't had a big garden until the past few years.
-- Claire Tomalin

#Past #Garden #Years
All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.
-- Claire Tomalin

#People #Behave
I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.
-- Claire Tomalin

#School #Autumn #College
As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.
-- Claire Tomalin

#Tired #Successful #Years
Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of women is helping to change the general picture of the past presented by historians.
-- Claire Tomalin

#Past #Two #Use
All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.
-- Claire Tomalin

#People
The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.
-- Claire Tomalin

#Self #Alive #Young
By the time I went up to Cambridge, I was extremely quiet and well behaved, although I now meet people who remember me as not like that at all.
-- Claire Tomalin

#People #Remember #Quiet
Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.
-- Claire Tomalin

#Children #Vulnerable #Fortune

So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, theres never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing itself until the past is perennially forgotten.
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.
Through all the relationship stuff I've gone through in the past few years, I know there are fundamental differences in how men and women view sex and how they view their futures.
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.
Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!

Claire Tomalin famous quotes

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