Biographers Quotes
After a person dies, his biographers feel free to give him a glittering list of intimate friends. Anecdotes are so much tastier spiced with expensive names.
Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.
biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.
Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.
Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of him.
If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter.
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.
Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.
biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.
Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.
The biographer's real business - if it is not too arrogant to say so - is simply this: to bring the dead to life.
All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.
Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them.
The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.
Not everything written on Kafka is Kafkology. How then to define Kafkology? By a tautology: Kafkology is discourse for Kafkologizing Kafka. For replacing Kafka with the Kafkologized Kafka.