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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

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

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. — Peter Ackroyd

Biography is the falsest of the arts. — F Scott Fitzgerald

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

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

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

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

It is the most horrific thought - my husband died among strangers. — Joyce Carol Oates

Your biography - that is, the experiences that make up your life - becomes your biology. — Caroline Myss

[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

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

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. — V.S. Naipaul

Ironically, the first full Baskerville biography published by CUP in 1907 was printed in Caslon — Simon Garfield

There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography. — Henry David Thoreau

Biography lends to death a new terror. — Oscar Wilde

if you want it really, you get it !!! — Ravinder Singh

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

Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death. — Virginia Woolf

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject ... — Iris Origo

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

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. — Anita Brookner

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

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

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