Biographers Day Quotes & Sayings

Once you figure out what's best for the story, take out the rest. — Karen Russell

Seated on a paving-stone near Enjolras, Courfeyrac continued to jeer at the cannon, and every passage of that sinister cloud of projectiles that is called grapeshot, accompanied by its monstrous din, drew from him an ironical comment.
'You're wearing yourself out, you poor old brute. You're getting hoarse. You're not thundering, only spluttering. It's breaking my heart.'
His remarks were greeted with laughter. — Victor Hugo

I'm taking you to lunch, sunshine."
"Like hell you are, trail mix."
"My name is Daniel. — Tessa Bailey

For the biographer, the final clue to character lies in the yet unread - the scribbled note, the diary page, a notation in the margin of a draft - until the day when even the most devoted portraitist of the dead says, "Enough!" Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible - resurrection. — Laura Furman

No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity. — Aleksandar Hemon

As always, the British especially shudder at the latest American vulgarity, and then they embrace it with enthusiasm two years later. — Alistair Cooke