Quotes by Biographers The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject. Amity Shlaes biographers subjects lucky The history of food has never had a better biographer. Required reading for anyone who eats. Dan Barber biographers reading His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush. Emily Dickinson cheeks biographers long biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier. Erica Jong biographers biographies art 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 biographers cynical said 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 biographers arrogant real biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer. Linda Simon biographers autobiography biographies There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. Orson Welles biographers biographies interesting 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 biographers sympathetic hours I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole. Ron Chernow hyperbole biographers littles Boswell is the first of biographers. Thomas B. Macaulay biographers firsts