Michael Holroyd Quotes

• Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both.

  Michael Holroyd

  Biographies, Embarrassment, Novel

  2002 Works on Paper: The Craft of Biography & Autobiography, 'The Case against Biography'.

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• Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history.

  Michael Holroyd

  Biographies, Thousand, Ten

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• I think that when one is dead one should be a little bit bolder, so that the rest of us may have some record of how things actually were.

  Michael Holroyd

  Thinking, Records, May

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