Alive Quote by Marvin Mudrick

“Johnson's later life, from 1763, is among the best documented of all literary lives. James Boswell gave himself the enormous task, after Johnson's death…

— Ronald Carter

Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all.

— Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

Boswell is the first of biographers

— Anonymous

“He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood. A book…

— Clive Barker

That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about a person:…

— Pope Francis

“Books—the closeness of them, their contact, their smell, and their contents—constitute the safest refuge against this world of horror. They are the most pleasant…

— Tahir Djaout The Last summer of Reason

“Johnson argued that the most truthful life-writing is when ‘the writer tells his own story’, since only he knows the whole truth about himself.…

— Hermione Lee

“Recreation And when we had invented death, had severed every soul from life we made of these our bodies sepulchers. And as we wandered…

— Scott Cairns

Dr. Calder [a Unitarian minister] said of Dr. [Samuel] Johnson on the publications of Boswell and Mrs. Piozzi, that he was like Actaeon, torn…

— Horace Walpole

If what that man did in his life, makes the blood pulse through the body of others, and makes them believe deeper in something…

— The Ultimate Warrior

The author of Biographia Literaria was already a ruined man. Sometimes, however, to be a "ruined man" is itself a vocation.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

It is only what is written upon the soul of man that will survive the wreck of time.

— Anonymous