Biographer Quotes
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Biographer Quotes & Sayings
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The inevitable effect of a biographer's hindsight is to belittle the subject's foresight.
— Clive James
Historians will handle a much wider range of sources than a biographer and will be covering a broader spectrum of events, time, peoples.
— Claire Tomalin
To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
— Katharine Anthony
I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.
— Barry Unsworth
The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.
— Russell Baker
To attempt to speak of what has been, would be impossible. Abyss has no Biographer -
— Emily Dickinson
My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.
— Cynthia Payne
Happy the mother who bears, happier still the biographer who records the life of such a one!
— Virginia Woolf
My life and work have been far from free of blemish, and so I think it would be unpardonable for a biographer not to dish up the dirt.
— William Styron
I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.
— Ron Chernow
The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.
— Victoria Glendinning
His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.
— Emily Dickinson
The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.
— Iris Origo
Every business should have its biographer-not after its head is dead but to show that he's very much alive.
— Frank Pierson
Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.
— Hermione Lee
The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.
— Dan Barber
The biographer has two lives: The one she leads, and the one she ultimately understands.
— Stacy Schiff
Biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
— Erica Jong
