Claire Tomalin : (4) " I have been left-wing always, from childhood. " - Claire Tomalin " I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people. " - Claire Tomalin " I had forgotten until I looked up old notes that I sold the film rights of my first book, a life of Mary Wollstonecraft: there was a lunch, a contract, a small sum of money, then nothing. " - Claire Tomalin " The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny. " - Claire Tomalin