Orson Welles
Director, Actor, Producer
"There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present."
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Biographers
11 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Hermione Lee
Author
"Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined."
Emily Dickinson
Poet
"His Cheek is his Biographer- As long as he can blush."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"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."
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