My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and…

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

The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.

— Iris Origo

The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

— Leon Edel

Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as their primary…

— Rachel Holmes

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

— Erica Jong

Every business should have its biographer-not after its head is dead but to show that he's very much alive.

— Frank Pierson

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way,…

— Henry Fielding

while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be…

— Iris Origo

In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid…

— Marian Seldes

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

— Victoria Glendinning

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

— Emily Dickinson

“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

Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and mysterious object…

— Josiah Royce