Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer…

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us…

— Virginia Woolf

“Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a time of reflection and planning. Others, like…

— William Raymond Manchester

My mother was a biographer's dream and a nightmare. She was a dream because she was a classic to write about and everybody loves…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

“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

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