Leads Quote by Stacy Schiff Download Open image “The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands.” — Stacy Schiff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Leads Lives She Two Ultimately Understands
A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“Biographers are not usually as explicit as philosophers such as Plato, Wittgenstein, Austin, or Moore on questions of the existence of an essential self, the extent to which a life can be lived according to a philosophical system, or the relation between acts and emotions. That is not their job – unless they are writing the Life of a philosopher.… — Hermione Lee Copy Share
The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know… — Mary Cable Copy Share Image
On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within… — Paul Murray Kendall Copy Share Image
“She has a bookshelf for a heart, and ink runs through her veins, she’ll write you into her story with the typewriter in her… — E.H Copy Share Image
the autobiography is at one and the same time a single element in the series of the writer's created works and an interpretation of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Her journal, the only thing in the world that she owned, held the events of her life. Things she wanted to forget and things she wanted to remember; all of them jumbled together in a mess of scribbling that could either warm her heart or break it—depended on where she looked. Strange how one small book can reach deep into… — Luke Alistar Copy Share
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer. — Linda Simon Copy Share Image
One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“She did not believe Fate as painstaking as her husband; she was more inclined to take matters into her own hands. She had ample… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Against a powerful enchantress there is no contest. Against a woman who ensnares a man in the coils of her serpentine intelligence - in… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Véra assumed her married name almost as a stage name; rarely has matrimony so much represented a profession. It was one of the ironies… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“A man who saw has turned blind, A hearer deaf, A leader now leads astray!” — Miriam Lichtheim Copy Share Image
Focusing on the long term and building a great product that is scalable ultimately leads to a great company. — Craig Sherman Copy Share Image
It has been my honor to support and work with President Barack Obama, a man who has brought courage and character to the presidency.… — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form… — Kim Young-ha Copy Share Image
I did this one movie with a great director named Wayne Kramer. It was 'Crossing Over,' and Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta… — Justin Chon Copy Share Image
Congressional staff members do have a considerable amount of responsibility. But in my experience, the loyalty of the vast majority of staffers to their… — John Harwood Copy Share Image
A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the… — Jim Hunt Copy Share Image
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I never try to give a message in my books. It's about living with characters long enough to hear their voices and let them… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
While the President leads his potential adversaries in almost every state, his support is soft. He is seen as honest, sincere, just, and friendly… — Robert Teeter Copy Share Image
I'm always drawn to strong female leads, so that's what drew me to 'Lost Girl.' I was a 'Buffy' fan and watched it with… — Anna Silk Copy Share Image
![“Véra assumed her married name almost as a stage name; rarely has matrimony so much represented a profession. It was one of the ironies of the life that – born at a time and place where women could and did lay claim to all kinds of ambitions – she should elevate the role of wife to a high art. […]…” quote by Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/30f/stacy-schiff-7881_art_v-ra-assumed-her-married-name-almost-as_231770.jpg)
