Leon Edel quotes

Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes. (Leon Edel)
The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. View quote
Leon Edel
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. View quote
Leon Edel