"The biographer has two lives: The one she……" — Stacy Schiff

"The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands."

— Stacy Schiff

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31 Quotes by Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce…
No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I…
Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit…
I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started…
We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There…
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book…
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in…
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library…
My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So…
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last…
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are…

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More Biographer Quotes

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On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily… — Unknown Author
Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer. — Mary Schmich
In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do… — Unknown Author
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy… — Unknown Author
The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. — Leon Edel
No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I… — Stacy Schiff
Ronald Reagan's biographer wrote of the former president's final days: "for all the intimate familiarity of that face and body,… — Unknown Author
My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in. — Cynthia Payne
To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. — Katharine Anthony
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. — Leon Edel
I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole. — Ron Chernow
His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush. — Emily Dickinson

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