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Biographers Quotes

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

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

Ron Chernow
Littles, Hyperbole, Biographers

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

Dan Barber
Reading, Biographers

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

Orson Welles
Interesting, Biographies, Biographers

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

Erica Jong
Art, Biographies, Biographers
Erica Jong (2013). “The Devil at Large: Erica Jong on Henry Miller”, p.65, Open Road Media

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
Cynical, Said, Biographers

Boswell is the first of biographers.

Thomas B. Macaulay
Firsts, Biographers

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.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Hours, Sympathetic, Biographers
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1850). “Representative Men: Seven Lectures”, p.154

biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.

Linda Simon
Biographies, Autobiography, Biographers

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
Real, Arrogant, Biographers

His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush.

Emily Dickinson
Long, Cheeks, Biographers
Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1740, Delphi Classics

The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

Amity Shlaes
Lucky, Subjects, Biographers
Source: www.ruthfullyyours.com

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