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I think people are always saying things are 'over.' Fiction has been regularly 'over' since the 19th century.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Always Been Century Fiction Over People Regularly Saying Since Things Think I Think 19Th Century

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I know it sounds pathetic, but I don't know who I am.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Am Know Pathetic Sounds Who I Am

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I fell in love with Shakespeare when I was 12, and I read the whole works. Yes, I was precocious.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Fell Love Precocious Read Shakespeare Whole Works Yes

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I think it's quite normal for people to have love affairs.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Affairs Love Normal People Quite Think I Think

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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.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: About History How Interested Past People Pleasures Present Problems Relate Thought Trying Understand

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I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Convinced Disaster Total Working

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My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Disasters Life My Life Random Series Sort

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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

Topics: About Across Come Expressing Few Had Herbert Interest Me Mysterious Same Same Time Several Songs Time Whose Work

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I was working at the 'Evening Standard' when I heard that there was a job going as deputy literary editor on the 'New Statesman.' I remember thinking, 'That's perfect.' It was three days a week, and I had children, but I could make that work - so I applied for it and got it.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Applied Children Could Days Deputy Editor Evening Going Got Had Heard Job Literary Make New Perfect Remember Standard Statesman Thinking Three Week Work Working I Remember

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I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.

~Claire Tomalin

Topics: Books Critic Doing Editor Glorious Keep Literary Mattered Really Seriously Something Standards Take Thing Thought Up

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: June 20th, 1933

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