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The nice thing about being a writer is that you can make magic happen without learning tricks.

Humphrey Carpenter

Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.

Humphrey Carpenter

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth.

Humphrey Carpenter

Biographies are likely to be either acts of worship or acts of destruction. And the best ones have elements of both.

Humphrey Carpenter

I could not pin him down to a conventional biographical text like a dead insect.

Humphrey Carpenter

Humphrey Carpenter

Humphrey Carpenter

Born: April 29, 1946

Died: January 4, 2005 (aged 58)

Bio: Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster.

Known for:

J. R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (1977)
The Inklings (1978)
W.H. Auden, a biography (1981)

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