Biographers Quote by Leon Edel

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.

— Leon Edel

“A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his epoch and…

— Thomas Mann

“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind…

— Yiyun Li

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were…

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

All writers are autobiographical to a degree and writing about the nature of their inner life. My inner life has always been a struggle…

— Francis Levy

“If the individual realizes his self by spontaneous activity and thus relates himself to the world, he ceases to be an isolated atom; he…

— Erich Fromm

“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

“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed limitations, fears,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die.

— Fay Weldon

The autobiographer looks at life through the lens of his or her own life and really uses herself or himself as the jumping-off place…

— Maya Angelou

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self.

— Charles Horton Cooley

An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.

— Anonymous