Enough Quote by Russell Baker

Nobody likes to be found out, not even one who has made ruthless confession a part of his profession. Any autobiographer, therefore, at least…

— Erik Erikson

“Everyone is an autobiographer nowadays, it’s like everyone is actively writing their own biography all the time,”

— James Wallman

“In moments of exhaustion, I think for some reason of writing an autobiography--proper work for tired artists--but every autobiographer must secretly believe he has…

— Arthur Miller

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.

— V. S. Naipaul

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

The historian ought to be the humblest of men; he is faced a dozen times a day with the evidence of his own ignorance;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of…

— Jorge Luis Borges

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

— Ron Chernow

Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our…

— Eric Metaxas

“An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author's demise.”

— Dan Makaon

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

— Antonia Fraser

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