Between history and the novel stands biography, their unwanted offspring, which has brought a great embarrassment to them both. In the historian's view it takes ten thousand biographies to make one small history. To the novelist biographers are simply what Nabokov called, "psycho-plagiarists."
Michael Holroyd, Works on Paper, 2002
Michael Holroyd, Works on Paper, 2002
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