André Maurois
... André Maurois (born Émile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog 26 July 1885 – 9 October 1967) was a French author ...Famous quotes containing the words andre maurois and/or maurois:
“It is in this impossibility of attaining to a synthesis of the inner life and the outward that the inferiority of the biographer to the novelist lies. The biographer quite clearly sees Peel, say, seated on his bench while his opponents overwhelm him with perhaps undeserved censure. He sees him motionless, miserable, his head bent on his breast. He asks himself: “What is he thinking?” and he knows nothing.”
—Andre Maurois (1885–1967)
“The really great novel ... tends to be the exact negative of its author’s life.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)