Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels.
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.
I see myself as writing biographies, the complete story of someone's life.
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwined. Get the facts wrong, or distort them, and the life story gets distorted: becomes fiction.
I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.