Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Boswell is the first of biographers.
I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.
The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.
biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.
biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.
Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.