Biographer Leon Quotes & Sayings

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. — Leon Edel

There is no solemnity so deep, to a right-thinking creature, as that of dawn. — John Ruskin

The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. — Leon Edel

What power that girl wielded, though there was nothing striking or unusual about her - unless one considered her long braid and her common sense! — Knut Hamsun

The bad guys are the fun guys. The only people I have trouble with are the so-called normal types. Their language isn't very colorful, and they don't talk with any certain sound. — Elmore Leonard

Over his own dark Cealdish beard. Nothing like your marvelous facebear, — Patrick Rothfuss

If the mind is open the individual will soon perceive the preciousness of a truth which initially appeared rather dull to him but now is illumined by the spirit's light. — Watchman Nee

I've always lived a life where what you see if what you get. I've never wanted to live two different lifestyles. The initial transition for me was perhaps the most difficult. It wasn't easy communicating what I believed and what my values were. Establishing that as a young adult was interesting. I was 20 years old when I got saved. — Kelly Clark