Biographers Quote by Hermione Lee

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

— Doris Lessing

“To learn that his treasures had been lost months ago, and so far away, was no different from learning of the death, similarly distant…

— Susan Sontag

Somewhere, at some point, somehow, somebody decided that death equals credibility.

— Chuck Klosterman

The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.

— Iris Origo

It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.

— Evan Esar

Every business should have its biographer-not after its head is dead but to show that he's very much alive.

— Frank Pierson

A writer's definitive death is when no one reads his books anymore. That's the final death.

— Jose Saramago

I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.

— Terry Pratchett

“Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites the love…

— Petrarch

“Remember that we must all die: all these personal relations we try to live by are temporary. I used to feel death selected people,…

— E.M. Forster

“And unless one can observe the guilt and regret of the mourners, surely there is nothing satisfactory about being dead?”

— Truman Capote

“If the article mentions some celebrity-perhaps a recently dead politician-the author will want to mention some pointless detail from her last meeting with that…

— David Brooks