Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.
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Dickens was very practical and sensible.
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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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When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.
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Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.
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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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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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Dickens is always full of surprises.
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Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films.
