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I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones. — Philip Roth

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

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be, — Lee Kuan Yew

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. — Cynthia Ozick

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! — Erin Duffy

My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies. — Bill Paxton

I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by Robert D. Richardson) — William James

The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much. — Russell Baker

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself. — Wole Soyinka

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 cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer. — Linda Simon

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

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them. — Kate Zambreno

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

I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies. — Walter Isaacson

Anyone who has lived a full life has something fascinating to share with the world. — Auliq Ice

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

I am a huge fan of biographies. What I'm always looking for is a story. I want a story I have never heard from anyone else. — Brandon Stanton

Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography. — Tom Stoppard