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We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.
— Henry David Thoreau
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer.
— Arthur Wing Pinero
What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings?
— Johannes Brahms
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
— Antonia Fraser
My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that.
— Nina Blackwood
For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.
— Rachel Holmes
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
Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late.
— Zach Braff
In the late 1990s, I left the teaching field to write biographies and histories for young adults.
— Charles J. Shields
A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.
— Sri Chinmoy
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader hurries on to the fugue.
— Dmitri Shostakovich
The pleasure of reading biography, like that of reading letters, derives from the universal hunger to penetrate other lives.
— Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks
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 possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty.
— Charles Richet
Unloved women have no biographiesthey have histories — F Scott Fitzgerald
The pa system has broken down. Society has broken down.
— Theresa Sjoquist
Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography of Christ.
— Robert Baden-Powell
Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are.
— Tony Robbins
Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives.
— Charles Wheelan
The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much.
— Russell Baker
Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all.
— Deepak Chopra
Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.
— Keshia Chante
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Food ethics are so complex because food is bound to both taste buds and taste, to individual biographies and social histories.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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
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
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
He says unloved women have no biographies - they have histories." Anthony laughed again. "Surely
— F Scott Fitzgerald
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
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
Biographies are best when written chronologically. Boring people don't make for good biographies.
— Deana J. Driver
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
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
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
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 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 autobiographies, they're not autobiographies, 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
