Leon Edel Quotes
- The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always…
- Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them, Emerson loved ideas…
- The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what…
- The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
- Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.