Quotes from Michael Holroyd

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

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

Her first marriage, a distressing experience involving an umbrella, had to be annulled.

On Virginia Woolf] Craving to be set free from her egomania by something or someone stronger and altogether dissimilar from herself, she speculated endlessly upon the unknown: and for her the unknown was frequently the commonplace.

quia multum amavit.