“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.” HateSubjectsBiographiesBiographers Author:D. T. Max
“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.” WantEndsMatterSubjectsFiguresMirrorsSympatheticBiographers Author:Gloria Steinem
“while it is certainly the biographer's business to describe the foibles, passions and idiosyncrasies which make his subject a person, his work will be very meagre if these individual traits are not also seen as part of a universal drama - for each man's life is also the story of Everyman.” IfsMenPersonsStoriesLife IsPassionIndividualSubjectsDramaUniversalTraitsBiographersIdiosyncrasiesFoiblesEveryman Author:Iris Origo
“In Milly Barranger, Margaret Webster has found the perfect biographer. In Margaret Webster, Milly Barranger has found her perfect subject. She brings to vivid life a fascinating and important theater figure whose public and private lives were of equal interest. In this carefully researched book, Webster's colleagues, lovers, and friends shine as brightly as she did. I wish she were here to read it.” ImportantBookFoundWishInterestPerfectSubjectsFiguresLoversEqualTheaterShiningFascinatingColleaguesVividPrivate LifeBiographersLovers And Friends Author:Marian Seldes
“History is about life. It's awful when the life is squeezed out of it and there's no flavor left, no uncertainties, no horsing around. It always disturbed me how many biographers never gave their subjects a chance to eat. You can tell a lot about people by how they eat, what they eat, and what kind of table manners they have.” PeopleKindLife IsLeftChanceSubjectsTablesAwfulMannersUncertaintyFlavorDisturbedBiographersTable MannersHorsing Around Author:David McCullough