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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

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

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

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

Why should I be limited by my own biography? — Eleanor Antin

I enjoy reading biographies because I want to know about the people who messed up the world. — Marie Dressler

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be, — Lee Kuan Yew

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies. — Cynthia Ozick

I used to devour biographies of people like Natalie Wood and Marilyn. — Emma Forrest

I like a good fun chick-lit book as much as I like historical fiction, mysteries, or biographies, I like to be well-rounded! — Erin Duffy

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 biographies
they have histories — F Scott Fitzgerald

Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. — Charles Wheelan

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

The biographer's problem is that he never knows enough. The autobiographer's problem is that he knows too much. — Russell Baker

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction. — Mae West

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself. — Wole Soyinka

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible. — Mick Jagger

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 are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two. — Phyllis Rose

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

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

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

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

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

Biography is the only true history. — Thomas Carlyle

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

My lectures were highly esteemed, but I am of opinion my operations rather kept down my practice, than increased it. — Astley Cooper

I can find my biography in every fable that I read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled. — Iris Origo

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history. — Seth Grahame-Smith

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

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

If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane. — Colm Toibin

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

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them. — Kate Zambreno

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

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. — Walter Lippmann

Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy. — Harold Lasswell

John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter. — John Arbuthnot

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life. — Courtney Barnett

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

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

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