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

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" I've behaved badly in my life. I hope I haven't behaved as badly as Dickens! In a way, if you're a woman, you're not in a position to behave as badly, because you don't have the economic power. "

" Throughout his life, Dickens cared passionately about orphans. "

" Dickens is always full of surprises. "

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

" Most writers can tell stories of how their books failed to be made into films. "

" I always try to travel light. "

" You become more tolerant when you become older. You're not interested in rapping people over the knuckles; you're interested in understanding them. "

" When I kept a diary, I realised that it was all moanings and depression, and I think that is quite common. "

" I belong to the Richmond Concert Society, who put on very good concerts. "

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

" Biographies are, in their nature, far more difficult to make into films than novels, because novels come with plots constructed and dialogue written, whereas I don't invent dialogue for my subjects or plot their lives for them. "

" After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters. "

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

" I have been left-wing always, from childhood. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think it's about as likely Jane Austen was gay as that she was found out to be a man. "

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

" 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. "

" Dickens is a lover of human beings; a relisher of human beings. "

" 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. "

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

" I would like to have a more social life than I have. "

" 'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular. "

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

" If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start afterwards and then work a full day with a break for lunch. "

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

" 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. "

" 'Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else. "

" Dickens was very practical and sensible. "