Claire Tomalin Programme Quotations

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

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.