#biographer

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

— Leon Edel

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

— Leon Edel

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

— Cynthia Payne

#parties #party #reminded #said #sex

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer. ↗

— Mary Schmich

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To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions. ↗

— Katharine Anthony

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I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#i #novelist

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole. ↗

— Ron Chernow

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