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

— Barry Unsworth

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

“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

“Biographer diagnoses reaction to restriction as a tell of true character. Some use even prison as a time of reflection and planning. Others, like…

— William Raymond Manchester

Writers are the custodians of memory, and that's what this chapter is about: how to leave some kind of record of your life and…

— William Zinsser

This is the magnanimity of authorship, when a writer having a topic presented to him, fruitful of beauties for common minds, waives his privilege,…

— Charles Lamb

“The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that our human…

— James K. Morrow

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

Keepers of books, keepers of print and paper on the shelves, librarians are keepers also of the records of the human spiritthe records of…

— Archibald MacLeish

One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

— Carlos Fuentes

“For the biographer, the final clue to character lies in the yet unread - the scribbled note, the diary page, a notation in the…

— Laura Furman

“Librarians, too, are gatekeepers -- not of actual experience, of course, but of its written accounts. My job is to safeguard those accounts. Not…

— Martha Cooley