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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

The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's. — Jane Austen

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

The historian is an indissoluble part of his history, as the poet is of his poem, as the shadowy biographer is of his subject's life ... — A.S. Byatt

Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer. — Mary Schmich

My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in. — Cynthia Payne

One biographer said Kennedy lived along the line where charm became power. — Scott Farris

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. — Leon Edel

Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with. — Paul Theroux

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

Insofar as there is an anxiety of influence for a biographer, it may be that each new book is undertaken in reaction to the previous book. — Stacy Schiff

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

I am the biographer of my own life. And no one can take that away from me. — Krista Ritchie

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. — Leon Edel

The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats. — Dan Barber

Biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer. — Linda Simon

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

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

No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I grow up.' — Stacy Schiff

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. — Orson Welles