Andrew Quote by Peter Morgan

I love to read the dedications of old books written in monarchies for they invariably honor some (usually insignificant) knight or duke with fulsome…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like…

— Ian Mckellen

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

There are some tremendous actors in the U.K. who have been knighted, and I've spent much of my life admiring many of them, like…

— Ian Mckellen

My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to…

— William Styron

If you look at the British royal family and take away the scandals and the goofy stuff that's going on, people love to have…

— Kevin J. Anderson

Let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great; that it lies within human ability to overcome…

— Lyndon Baines Johnson

As it often happens that the best men are but little known, and consequently cannot extend the usefulness of their examples a great way,…

— Henry Fielding

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended…

— D. T. Max

“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

“Young Surrey now lays down his knife and begins to complain. Noblemen, he laments, are not respected as they were in the days when…

— Hilary Mantel

Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full view of…

— Janet Malcolm