Biographies Quote by Sarah Manguso

All partings foreshadow the great final one.

— Charles Dickens

“Foreshadow, plot buster or red herring... only time will tell: P69 -- Cassie waited; in the evening light through the window her eyes looked…

— Tana French

When writing a novel, I'm not smart enough to know how to foreshadow something if I don't know what it is.

— John Irving

“The shining light of Logres shone as high and clear as ever, but as a candle flares before it gutters out.”

— Rosemary Sutcliff

Every great drama has its foreshadow.

— William Shakespeare

“This year, of course, being 1936, there would be no figs.”

— Alan Furst

“Ah, mais c'est Anglais ca," he murmured, "everything in black and white, everything clear cut and well defined. But life, it is not like…

— Agatha Christie

“The morning was one peculiar to that coast. Everything was mute and calm; everything gray. The sea, though undulated into long roods of swells,…

— Herman Melville

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive…

— Theodore Dalrymple

All Philosophy is Biography

— Peter J. Carroll

Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best…

— Samuel Smiles

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

— Emmylou Harris