The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the…

“The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. To her, the hand-writing itself, independent of any thing it may convey, is…

— Jane Austen

“Oh!" cried Anne eagerly, "I hope I do justice to all that is felt by you, and by those who resemble you. God forbid…

— Jane Austen

“One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power.”

— Scott Farris

I don't think there is ever objective biography. Our vision of our subject is always shaped by who we are. So I do, of…

— Stacy Schiff

“Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one!”

— Virginia Woolf

His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.

— Emily Dickinson

When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.

— Ron Chernow

I'm not a Lincoln expert, rather a biographer who has had the pleasure of reading much of what has been written about him from…

— Fred Kaplan

To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.

— Katharine Anthony

“For the biographer, the final clue to character lies in the yet unread - the scribbled note, the diary page, a notation in the…

— Laura Furman

Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel…

— Edwin Morris

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

— Linda Simon

I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio…

— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

“Margaret Lea.” “The biographer.”

— Diane Setterfield

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.

— Mary Schmich