Biographer Quotes

24 quotes by 20 authors

On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it. — Paul Murray Kendall
Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer. — Mary Schmich
In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses,… — Darryl Pinckney
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ...… — Mark Bostridge
The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. — Leon Edel
No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up,' — Stacy Schiff
Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel his… — Edwin Morris
My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in. — Cynthia Payne
To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. — Katharine Anthony
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. — Leon Edel
I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole. — Ron Chernow
His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush. — Emily Dickinson
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort… — John Dos Passos
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. — Orson Welles
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the… — Virginia Woolf
Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to… — Paul Theroux
Everyone his own cinematographer. His own stream-of-consciousness e-mail poet. His own nightclub DJ. His own political columnist. His own biographer of his top-10 friends! — Walter Kirn
Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples. — Claire Tomalin
To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open… — Blake Bailey

Who Wrote These Biographer Quotes

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