Biography Quotes
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Biography Quotes & Sayings
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I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
— Antonia Fraser
Writing a biography is not a love affair. It's not a marriage. It's a job, it's a piece of work.
— Hermione Lee
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
Indeed, there is nothing on this earth more peaceful than a sleeping, purring cat.
— Jonathon Scott Payne
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
You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy.
— Anthony Marra
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
— Peter Ackroyd
If loving the written word is wrong ... I don't want to be right!
— Junnita Jackson
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.
— Kate Fleetwood
Mythology, in other words, is psychology misread as biography, history, and cosmology.
— Joseph Campbell
Biography is the falsest of the arts.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
— Eric Bentley
Conventional wisdom tells us not to dwell in the past. I believe, however, that we should hold hands with it.
— Dana Glossbrenner
Your past doesn't define who you are. Biography isn't Destiny.
— Kathryn Perez
Live your life as if you are writing your Biography.
— Keshia Chante
I'm an avid biography reader.
— Brent Spiner
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
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed.
— Joseph Campbell
Up to four chauffeurs, two secretaries, two personal maids, and a masseur traveled with her to each home
— Estella M. Chung
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view.
— Richard Attenborough
I'm not a very good writer. But I'm a HELLUVA re-writer.
— Laini Giles
Japan surprised almost everyone but Marty with their attack on Pearl Harbor,
— Karen Wardamasky Bobrow
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
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
She had privacy, and the privilege of walking up and down the same battlements as the sentries.
— John Peter Nettl
...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present.JOURNALIST. And your plans.
PLAYER. To play! — Mikhail Tal
Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.
— Claire Tomalin
To me, that's the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind.
— James Patterson
May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.
— James M. Barrie
Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Monotony is the only reward of the cautious
— A. Somebody
In a nutshell, I am not unaware of my failings. Neither am I a stranger to irony.
— Mordecai Richler
P6-the sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within sociey.
— C. Wright Mills
A frank, smart and wholly unsentimental biography . . . a remarkably
— Walter Isaacson
I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
— Charles Babbage
I wish that I really were all troubled and beautiful the way that some people are. Give myself the kind of beginning worthy of the Biography Channel.
— Ainslie Hogarth
It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.
— David A. Adler
Write a biography of him. I had recently published one
— Walter Isaacson
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
Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.
— Pamela Stephenson
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
I know where I am going now with art. I have found myself. Yvonne Rust 1994, aged 72.
— Theresa Sjoquist
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[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
Your biography - that is, the experiences that make up your life - becomes your biology.
— Caroline Myss
It is the most horrific thought - my husband died among strangers.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.
— Erica Jong
Bentham was an atheist and in no sense of the word could he be described as a theologian.
— James E. Crimmins
Coexisting with the radiant masculinity of Apollonian Keats is a lunar poet of enchanted night in thrall to the goddess Hecate.
— Nicholas Roe
Ironically, the first full Baskerville biography published by CUP in 1907 was printed in Caslon
— Simon Garfield
I'm not Mickey Mouse, I'm a human being.
— Mitch Winehouse
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.
— V.S. Naipaul
Every old man that dies is a library that burns.
— Amadou Hampate Ba
Between the sands of time is a multitude of truths untold.
— Jason E. Royle
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
The clown was an evil one. They're either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.
— Chris Thrall
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
This is the best biography by me I have ever read.
— Lawrence Welk
There is properly no history; only biography.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy.
— Harold Lasswell
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.
— Virginia Woolf
A raznochinets needs no memory - it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done.
— Osip Mandelstam
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write.
— Julie Salamon
I'm also doing a special for Comedy Central called Autobiography. It's going to be a spoof of Biography.
— Kathy Griffin
Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
— Anita Brookner
Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
— John Arbuthnot
What's bad about my biography? My father was a worker, my brothers, too, and I have always honestly served my country.
— Ivan Bagramyan
I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.
— Douglas Brinkley
A woman's biography - with about eight famous historical exceptions - so often turns out to be the story of a man and the woman who helped his career.
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
Mistakes? That's why they put erasers on pencils.
— Rick Barnett
You must value something highly to go to war to improve it
— Deborah Laake
...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
if you want it really, you get it !!!
— Ravinder Singh
Biography lends to death a new terror.
— Oscar Wilde
