Been Quote by Candice Millard

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.

— Anonymous

In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being…

— Charles Horton Cooley

The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful.

— Janusz Korczak

When people find a man of the most distinguished abilities as a writer their inferior while he is with them, it must be highly…

— Samuel Johnson

Those authors who appear sometimes to forget they are writers, and remember they are men, will be our favorites.

— Benjamin Disraeli

It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with…

— Humphrey Bogart

If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and…

— Jonathan Franzen

“It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for granted, be humble…

— CK Webb

I'm very much a writer at heart.

— Jamelle Bouie

I write to escape from my life. Writing about men separates 'me' from my work in a way that I find comforting.

— Jennifer Egan

In great literature, I become a thousand different men but still remain myself.

— Anonymous

I, on my side, require of every writer, first or last, a simple and sincere account of his own life, and not merely what…

— Henry David Thoreau