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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

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

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

I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction to biography. — Don DeLillo

Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. — Eric Bentley

If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life. — Kevin Smith

Conventional wisdom tells us not to dwell in the past. I believe, however, that we should hold hands with it. — Dana Glossbrenner

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

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

The creative person should have no other biography than his works. — B. Traven

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

- a knowledgeable man is a free man, or at least a man who longs for freedom. — Trevor Noah

...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

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

May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me. — James M. Barrie

People were more than crooked type and swastika-stamped documents. No number of bullet points and biography facts could pin the soul behind the eyes. — Ryan Graudin

Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory. — Benjamin Disraeli

Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How do I find the basic plot of my story? — James Hillman

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

It's great fun to memorize somebody's biography, and then liberally play with the real facts of their life and go a step beyond reality. — Andy Daly

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

That Bob Crane is not here to tell his own life story is our ultimate loss. — Carol M. Ford

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

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

I know where I am going now with art. I have found myself. Yvonne Rust 1994, aged 72. — Theresa Sjoquist

[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

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

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

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

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

There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. — Orson Welles

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

The only biography I read was about Al Bell, of Stax Records. I wanted to follow in the footsteps of Al Bell. — Juicy J

This is the best biography by me I have ever read. — Lawrence Welk

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

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

But above all, an author must write passionately and edit passionately. — Paul Collins

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

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

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

To say that a great genius is mad, while at the same time recognizing his artistic merit, is no better than to say he is rheumatic or diabetic. — James Joyce

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

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