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Dickens was very practical and sensible.
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I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.
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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.
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Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.
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Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs.
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I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.
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Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans.
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I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.
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I would like to have a more social life than I have.
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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.
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The whole world knows Dickens, his London and his characters.
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The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.
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He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.
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You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them.
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Dickens is always full of surprises.
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I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.
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Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington.
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I always try to travel light.
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I didn't start writing my own books until I was 40.
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Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
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I have been left-wing always, from childhood.
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All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.
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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.
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The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.
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As a young man, Dickens worked as a reporter in the House of Commons and hated it. He felt that all politicians spoke with the same voice.
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All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.
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It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child.
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Poor Nelly, she was not to know that fashions in sin change as much as other fashions.
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Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.
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I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.
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Dickens belongs to the English people.
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I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.
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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.
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Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings.
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Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.
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Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be.
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It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.
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After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
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I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.
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Simon Russell Beale is an incomparable speaker of Shakespeare and a superb all-round actor.
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I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.
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Dickens never joined a political party nor put forward a political programme. He was a writer who rightly saw his power as coming through his fiction.
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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.
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I think it's quite normal for people to have love affairs.
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When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common.
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My life was a sort of series of random disasters.
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