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The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record acts like an inspiration to others.
— Samuel Smiles
The best life of Christ is His living biography, written out in the words and actions of His people. If
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is my real biography.
— Hattie Carnegie
Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.
— Jonathon Scott Payne
The best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style. [Vogue, interview, 1969]
— Vladimir Nabokov
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.
— Charles Baudelaire
What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?
— Johannes Brahms
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
— Peter Ackroyd
Biography is the falsest of the arts.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
The miracle of the Resurrection, and the theology of that miracle, comes first: the biography comes later as a comment on it.
— C.S. Lewis
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
Your past doesn't define who you are. Biography isn't Destiny.
— Kathryn Perez
What'll be your biography? "At that point, life seemed pretty bleak. Then (insert your name) did a surprising thing...
— Richard Bach
Hmmm," he said. "Quite a novel idea, I must say. But hardly conducive to a bestselling, tell-all, no-holds-barred biography.
— Alan Bradley
I know where I am going now with art. I have found myself. Yvonne Rust 1994, aged 72.
— Theresa Sjoquist
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have had a lot of readers of my book tell me that they like it, but so far only two reviews have been listed. Could you help?
— Rollis Fontenot Jr
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
— V.S. Naipaul
[M]an has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own and other's. (p.130)
— Milan Kundera
Bentham was an atheist and in no sense of the word could he be described as a theologian.
— James E. Crimmins
Biography lends to death a new terror.
— Oscar Wilde
if you want it really, you get it !!!
— Ravinder Singh
...no matter how frequently we came, when we arrived, they acted as if we had been away one hundred years. [His grandparents' greeting.]
— James Vescovi
You must value something highly to go to war to improve it
— Deborah Laake
How exhausted I am suddenly! - though this has been Ray's best day in the hospital so far, and we are feeling - almost - exhilarated.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Biography is the best form of history.
— Josh Billings
If you put forth a small amount of effort, you just might find your next best friend for life is of a different race than your own.
— Ted Harts
Every old man that dies is a library that burns.
— Amadou Hampate Ba
It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full.
— Auliq Ice
This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
— Lawrence Welk
The only biography I read was about Al Bell, of Stax Records. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Al Bell.
— Juicy J
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
The clown was an evil one. They're either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.
— Chris Thrall
For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold.
— Jason E. Royle
James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.
— Mike Jay
Your biography - that is, the experiences that make up your life - becomes your biology.
— Caroline Myss
I'm not Mickey Mouse, I'm a human being.
— Mitch Winehouse
Ironically, the first full Baskerville biography published by CUP in 1907 was printed in Caslon
— Simon Garfield
Coexisting with the radiant masculinity of Apollonian Keats is a lunar poet of enchanted night in thrall to the goddess Hecate.
— Nicholas Roe
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
— Anita Brookner
Biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
— Erica Jong
It is the most horrific thought - my husband died among strangers.
— Joyce Carol Oates