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

- Michael Holroyd

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

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

- Michael Holroyd