while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Lyndon Johnson (with Abraham Lincoln close behind). Johnson was able to get things done, to read other people, and to adjust his… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject. — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on… — Mark Bostridge Copy Share Image
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
Every business should have its biographer-not after its head is dead but to show that he's very much alive. — Frank Pierson Copy Share Image
Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and… — Timothy Garton Ash 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
[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
Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive. — Catherine Drinker Bowen 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
“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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 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
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
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
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
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