Famous quotes containing the words mortimer and/or biography:
“When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.”
—John Mortimer (b. 1923)
“Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.”
—Rebecca West [Cicily Isabel Fairfield] (1892–1983)