The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself.

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Biography lends to death a new terror.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry...

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry...

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout...

From the time I was 7 or 8 years old, we were the roughest knockabout...

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the...

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the...

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it...

Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it...

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of...

But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of...

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

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

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

There is properly no history; only biography

There is properly no history; only biography

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an...

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an...

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

I can find my biography in every fable that I read

Boswell is the first of biographers

Boswell is the first of biographers

Biography is the only true history

Biography is the only true history

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.