As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive. — Catherine Drinker Bowen Copy Share Image
The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats. — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving… — Mark Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Biographers rue the destruction or loss of letters; they might also curse the husband and wife who never leave each other’s side,… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
[The biographer] must be as ruthless as a board meeting smelling out embezzlement, as suspicious as a secret agent riding the Simplon-Orient… — Paul Murray Kendall Copy Share Image
My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer… — William Styron Copy Share Image
To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined. — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much.… — William Carey Copy Share Image
Eleanor Marx was her father's first biographer. All subsequent biographies of Karl Marx, and most of Engels, draw on her work as… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
“It is part of the received doctrine of modern biography that all characters are Flawed, and as a Christian priest I am… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Man you can define; but the true essence of any man, say, for instance, of Abraham Lincoln, remains the endlessly elusive and… — Josiah Royce Copy Share Image
History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
All of us are many different people over time. We have our childhood selves, people that we remember, but they're very different… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
For me, it is about using everything that is there and using the gaps in the record, figuring out why the gaps… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Would that we might spare the reader what is to come and say to him in so many words, Orlando died and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. — Leon Edel Copy Share Image
biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Unless we are very young or lifelong fools, we do not look to artists --- or their biographers --- for our role… — Jesse Kornbluth Copy Share Image
On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an… — Paul Murray Kendall Copy Share Image
Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection. — Laura Furman Copy Share Image
Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
One of the things for me, as a biographer, that is so significant is for Eleanor Roosevelt - the child who never… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets.… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
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