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Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time,…
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Biographers use historians more than historians use biographers, although there can be two-way traffic - e.g., the ever-growing production of biographies of…
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Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about…
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All the people I have written about remain with me - perhaps they are my closest friends.
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Poetry was one of the things that interested me most as I was growing up. I used to write it in my…
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People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad…
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I continually get more information about a subject after the book has been published.
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I always feel sad when I come to the end of a book.
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After Shakespeare, Dickens is the great creator of characters, multiple characters.
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Writers often feel obliged to adopt some sort of public appearance.
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Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.
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In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.
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Only the slow reader will notice the odd crowd of images-flier, butcher, seal-which have gathered to comment on the aims and activities…
— William H. Gass
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It may be that you will be happiest in the rat race; perhaps, like me, you are basically a rat.
— Richard Koch
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I had a friend in college who loved to say: 'If you can dream it, you can do it.' It became my…
— Michele Gorman
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You might perhaps like to see the few canvases I was able to save from the bailiffs and the rest, since I…
— Claude Monet
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It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read…
— Saul Bellow
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For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.
— Claire Tomalin
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To be lonely and experience the feeling of being unwanted is probably the most devastating emotion a person can encounter. Perhaps, like…
— David Kreger
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