Famous quotes containing the words maurois and/or biography:
“The really great novel ... tends to be the exact negative of its authors life.”
—AndrĂ© Maurois (18851967)
“The death of Irving, which at any other time would have attracted universal attention, having occurred while these things were transpiring, went almost unobserved. I shall have to read of it in the biography of authors.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)