1.
I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.
Ron Chernow
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The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats.
Dan Barber
3.
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
Orson Welles
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biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
Erica Jong
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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
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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
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biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.
Linda Simon
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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
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The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.
Amity Shlaes