Biographers Quote by Gloria Steinem

This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that…

— Mark Twain

In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books…

— John Scott

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one's life, without seeing oneself in…

— Leon Trotsky

I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

— Barry Unsworth

Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our…

— Eric Metaxas

“Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an essential self,…

— Hermione Lee

I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.

— Ron Chernow

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror.

— Lil Wayne

Trying the way we do every time we look in a mirror to figure out exactly who that person is.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Left to itself every literature will exhaust its vitality, if it is not refreshed by the interest and contributions of a foreign one. What…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

— Anonymous

To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor. It seems to me it requires not only the tact, patience, and thoroughness of a…

— Nancy Milford