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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Crammed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings, and to experience something of their lives. This has always been so - look at the Bible, crammed with biographies, very popular reading.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man.
- End
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I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book doesn't end when you finish writing it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Creator
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- Nov 07, 2020
After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
- Demonic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone finds their own version of Charles Dickens. The child-victim, the irrepressibly ambitious young man, the reporter, the demonic worker, the tireless walker. The radical, the protector of orphans, helper of the needy, man of good works, the republican. The hater and the lover of America. The giver of parties, the magician, the traveler.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020