"Biography is the process of making up, or making over."
"...the source material has to be tidied up, little bits of it lopped off here and there, in order to give the life-story a clear narrative shape." (Pepys)
"Is there any such thing as a fact?"
"Biography can be seen as a form of betrayal.'
On the film, 'The Hours' (about Virginia Woolf's life and suicide): "It sets up a life-story which is moving inexorably towards that death... this film will inform the perceptions of Virginia Woolf of a generation of cinema goers... (and yet) there is no owning her, or the facts of her life. The Nose is her latest and most popular incarnation, but she won't stay fixed under it forever."
"A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for 6 or 7 selves, whereas a person may well have as many thousand." (Woolf).
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