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Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Leon Edel
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
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
The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
Leon Edel
Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
Mary Schmich
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Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Leon Edel 
61% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
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
52% of people like this quote
The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
Leon Edel
47% of people like this quote
Linda Tripp has shown that a true friend is an archivist, a biographer.
Mary Schmich
46% of people like this quote
My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in.
Cynthia Payne
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To the biographer all lives bar none are dramatic constructions.
Katharine Anthony
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