Though just biographical record will touch the failings of the good and the eminent with tenderness.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think anything that anyone writes that's any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals of interest in even the most obscure ones tend to reveal more about those who make revisionist assessments than about those who are being reassessed.
The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
To remain relevant though, I think making great records is the key.
We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
I feel like my career has been a series of glowing obituaries.
Biography should be written by an acute enemy.