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When dealing with a subject who is dead, you have this feeling of being God. You know who they're going to marry, when they're going to die. It's strange to feel so omniscient.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Being Dead Dealing Die Feel Feeling God Going Know Marry Omniscient Strange Subject Who You

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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.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Broader Covering Events Handle Historians Much People Range Sources Spectrum Than Time Wider Will

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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

Topics: Although Biographies Change General Helping Historians More Past Picture Presented Production Than Traffic Two-Way Use Women

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All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: About Closest Closest Friends Friends Me People Perhaps Remain Written

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Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my head all the time. I still think the very greatest pleasure in life is to write a poem.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Greatest Greatest Pleasure Growing Growing Up Head Interested Life Me Most One Of The Things Pleasure Poem Poetry Still Things Think Time Up Used Very Write

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

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: About After Been Book Continually Get Information More Published Subject

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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.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: About Austen Be A Man Found Gay Jane Jane Austen Likely Man Out She Think I Think

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I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Always Book Come End Feel Sad

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The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Book End Finish Writing You

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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.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Biographies Books Had Life More Real Real Life Since Sometimes Started Than Think Writing

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: June 20th, 1933

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