biographer

is like a contractor who builds roads: it's terribly messy, mud everywhere, and when you get done, people travel over the road at a fast clip.

A biographer is like a contractor who builds roads: it's terribly messy, mud everywhere, and when you get done, people travel over the road at a fast clip

is one who can give us much more than facts only if he respects facts: the creative fact... the fertile fact... the fact that suggests and engenders.

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.

is the subject's closest ally and bitterest enemy.

The biographer becomes the subject's closest ally and bitterest enemy.

A biographer is an artist who is on oath.

is a professional burglar, breaking into a house, rifling through certain drawers that he has good reason to think contain the jewelry and the money, and triumphantly bearing his loot away.

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biographer