Biographers Quote by Milan Kundera

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

— Dorothy Parker

In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the…

— Colum McCann

I sometimes think novelists write about sex in order to avoid boring themselves to death.

— Walker Percy

When you're a biographer, you want to explore the very things that your subject didn't care to talk about.

— Ron Chernow

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and intimate things.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

— Ali Smith

Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.

— Elizabeth Hardwick

The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“People will point to books written about women, by men, and books written by women, and say, ‘Tell me, what is the difference?’ The…

— Shireen Dodson

. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had…

— Jane Austen