You’re writing about people’s lives, which is pretty meta to
start off with. And if you’re writing about a writer, then it’s even more so. I
wonder if biographers have a completely different outlook on life, since they
have seen and examined so many other lives.
Then there’s also the fact that you are bringing this
probably long dead person back to life. The way you write about them changes
everything about them. And you don’t even know this person, so what right do
you have to portray them in any way? (That’s what I would be thinking, gold
sticker to anyone who won’t be thinking this.) You are judged based on this
person’s life, and the way that it is portrayed. But despite all that, I don’t
think the literary world regards you as highly as a historian or a fiction
writer. It’s a tough life.
It just seems so strange and difficult, being a biographer.
I don’t think I could do it.
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