Biographers Quote by Virginia Woolf

“...Orlando, to whom fortune had given every gift--plate, linen, houses, men-servants, carpets, beds in profusion--had only to open a book for the whole vast…

— Virginia Woolf

“There was no back home any more, not in the essential way, and that was part of Paris too. Why we couldn't stop drinking…

— Paula McLain

“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“This is the whole of the story and we might have left it at that had there not been profit and pleasure in the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Now these ashes have grown cold, we open the old book. These oil-stained pages recount the tales of the Fallen, a frayed empire, words…

— Steven Erikson

“And all the woe that moved him so That he gave that bitter cry the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats None knew so…

— Oscar Wilde

“The great writer evokes the words that buried within hearts of readers.”

— Toba Beta

“The greatest tribute one can give to a writer is that it is simply enough to read him.”

— Isaac Goldberg

“There are some griefs so loud They could bring down the sky, And there are griefs so still None knows how deep they lie,…

— May Sarton

“And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later…

— Lord Dunsany

“When he died, all things soft and beautiful and bright would be buried with him.”

— Madeline Miller

“He secretly believed that his greatest gift to the world would be to take that sadness with him when he was buried.”

— Douglas Watson