Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Patricia Bosworth

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Patricia Bosworth.
Last updated on April 17, 2025.
Patricia Bosworth

Patricia Bosworth was an American journalist and biographer, memoirist, and actress. She was a faculty member of Columbia University’s school of journalism as well as Barnard College, and was a winner of the Front Page Award for her journalistic achievement in writing about the Hollywood Blacklist. She died from COVID-19 complications during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does. — © Patricia Bosworth
Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does.
I believe no matter how much you research a person's life. No matter how long you spend, the person always remains a mystery. I go by this quote that Mark Twain said about the definition of a biography: a biography is the clothes and buttons of a man or a woman but the real story is in the person's head and that you can never know. I don't think it's possible to get the whole picture, ever.
So much has changed about the culture, it's so much more about money and celebrity. Celebrity not in the sense of people who achieve something, because in the old days, I think if you were famous it meant you were an achiever. Now it's the Kardashians.
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