Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A middle class is so important to a society that its value cannot be overestimated.
I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and that's very much the same ethos as what Richard Yates and John Cheever wrote about.
The middle class, one of the great achievements in history, is becoming more of a relic than a reality.
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
A strong, educated middle class is what made America the greatest country in the world.
The most valuable writers are those in whom we find not themselves, or ourselves, or the fugitive era of their lifetimes, but the common vision of all times.
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it I've met, and think they're incredibly witty, inventive - there's a lot of poetry there.
You can't define what's middle class, what is wealthy, what is poor.
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.