Biographers Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am well aware that the path of the biographer is beset with pitfalls, and that, for him, suppressio veri is almost necessarily suggestio…

— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood

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

Boswell is the first of biographers

— Anonymous

Authorised royal biographers are so straitjacketed, deferential, fawning, and unadventurous that they can only be after a knighthood. Or they're completely scurrilous and insolent,…

— Peter Morgan

His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.

— Emily Dickinson

If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New Testament]father upon…

— Thomas Jefferson

"I want to be always happy," Maxine Hong Kingston announces . But, as this interview makes clear, for me, it was the desire to…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The authorized biographers - the ones hand-picked to write the sanitized version of a subject's life - sit up front with the swells while…

— Kitty Kelley

Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality, and of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“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

Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body, I did not feel…

— Edwin Morris