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What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?
— Johannes Brahms
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.
— Claire Tomalin
I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world.
— Marie Dressler
My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies.
— Bill Paxton
The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.
— Russell Baker
Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.
— Keshia Chante
The best interviews like the best biographies should sing the strangeness and variety of the human race.
— Lynn Barber
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Biography is the best form of history.
— Josh Billings
Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.
— Deana J. Driver
When I read biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me.
— Michael Ondaatje
Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.
— Claire Tomalin
John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter.
— John Arbuthnot
Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.
— Harold Lasswell
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers.
— Bruno Tonioli
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
— Walter Lippmann
May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.
— James M. Barrie
Biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
— Erica Jong
If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.
— Colm Toibin
I do read on holiday, but it tends to be very lowbrow. I'm into really camp biographies, and I'm a shameless fan of Jilly Cooper.
— Miranda Raison
However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.
— William Golding
I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.
— Courtney Barnett
For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies.
— Michael Patrick Hearn
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
— Varley O'Connor
