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" It's a difficult thing to lose a child, a grown-up child. "

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" Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples. "

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

" The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it. "

" Biographers search for traces, for evidence of activity, for signs of movement, for letters, for diaries, for photographs. "

" 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. "

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

" Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance. "

" 'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Because my father is French, my first school was the Lycee Francais de Londres in Kensington. "

" Dickens is always full of surprises. "

" Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed towards what I'm trying to write. "

" I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published. "

" '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. "

" Dickens had more energy than anyone in the world, and he expected his sons to be like him, and they couldn't be. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I always try to travel light. "

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

" Dickens was very practical and sensible. "