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I always try to travel light.

Dickens was very practical and sensible.

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When you live with Dickens for years, reading him and trying to present him as faithfully as you can, you can't fail to love the man - so the shock of his bad behaviour is considerable, even when you know...

It's an odd situation: I could not write about someone for whom I felt no affection or admiration.

I have been fascinated by Dickens worshippers who strenuously deny that he did anything wrong in relation to his wife, even though the record is clear that he did.

Today's children have very short attention spans because they are being reared on dreadful television programmes which are flickering away in the corner.

All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

My life was a sort of series of random disasters.

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.

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.

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 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.

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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