All writers behave badly. All people behave badly.
The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.
I enjoyed the whole process of learning and was always happy when autumn came and school or college started up again.
Everybody is vulnerable through love of their children. Hostages to fortune.
All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.
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.