Biographies Quotes & Sayings
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All of our theology must eventually become biography. —
Tim Hansel

I have believed in the
biographies I have written. I truly can tell you that they have influenced our society politically, culturally, socially. —
Kitty Kelley

A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked. —
H.G.Wells

The immense majority of human
biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. —
George Steiner

I don't read
biographies for moral instruction, or for a history lesson. I want to know what people are saying about me. —
Bauvard

My father was highbrow: writing long
biographies of Dante and stuff like that. Ghostwriting sportsman memoirs? That was sort of the lowest of the low. —
David Lagercrantz

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized
biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday. —
Barbra Streisand

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. —
Joseph Campbell

In the old days, they killed the messenger who brought the bad news ... a Cassandra is never popular in her time. —
Alice Stewart
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[On writing biography:] If you wish to see a person you must not start by seeing through him. —
Iris Origo

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person. —
Louis Fischer

Biography is the best form of history. —
Josh Billings

Biography is the only true history. —
Thomas Carlyle

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended up hating them. —
D.T. Max

He says unloved women have no
biographies - they have histories." Anthony laughed again. "Surely —
F Scott Fitzgerald

Each second of every time has its own story and history to be filed. —
Auliq Ice

For me writing
biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent. —
Alfred Nobel

Inthehistorian'sview biography isa kindoffrogspawn it takes ten thousand
biographies to make one small history. —
Michael Holroyd

History - a biography of a few stout and earnest persons —
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've had three
biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me. —
David Cassidy

Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian
biographies. —
Aiden Wilson Tozer

You ask whether I am going over to the history of science ... no, I am not as old as that. —
Christopher Kelk Ingold

I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography. —
Gene Simmons

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography. —
Pierre Boulez
Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good
biographies. —
Deana J. Driver

If the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots I would burn my [Gulliver's] Travels. —
Jonathan Swift

I mainly read histories and
biographies, but I'm also a big fan of Graham Swift and Thomas Hardy. —
Ben Elliot

However you disguise novels, they are always
biographies. —
William Golding

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

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

Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five
biographies. —
Claire Tomalin

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

Biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier. —
Erica Jong

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

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

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

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

There won't be any
biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting copy. —
Flannery O'Connor

I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls. —
Ann Wroe

I very rarely read any fiction. I love
biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy. —
Al Sharpton
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[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad. —
Bronislaw Malinowski
Biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two. —
Phyllis Rose

There won't be any
biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy. —
Flannery O'Connor
Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible. —
Mick Jagger

Many of the greatest men that ever lived have written biography.Boswell was one ofthesmallest menthat ever lived and he has beaten them all. —
Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

I have very positive memories of reading
biographies of unusual Americans as a child. —
Chris Van Allsburg

Lives do not have plots, only
biographies do. —
Guy Davenport

I wish I had my beta-blockers handy. —
James Black

I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991. —
Holly Johnson

The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. —
Edward Abbey

Most people when they have auto
biographies, they're not auto
biographies, they're
biographies written by a ghost writer. —
Jeff Dunham

When you write
biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. —
Walter Isaacson

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. —
David McCullough

On the whole, I think you should write
biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken. —
Penelope Fitzgerald

I always use primary sources, in addition to reading
biographies and other materials. —
Nancy Horan

When I read
biographies, I skip the first thirty pages about the childhood because it doesn't seem interesting to me. —
Michael Ondaatje