Demise Quote by Anthony Trollope

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

— Mark Twain

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

— Frank Pierson

As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and…

— Anonymous

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and…

— Mark Twain

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death.

— Virginia Woolf

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of…

— Janet Malcolm

I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a…

— Robert Caro

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

— Samuel Goldwyn

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

— George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

— Walter Cronkite

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about…

— Stephen Greenblatt