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“By now, he was also a 'Protestant Atheist', which he remained all his life.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have… — Mike Parry Copy Share Image
I loved Victoria Glendinning's bio of Vita Sackville-West. I also loved Michael Holroyd's immense biography of Lytton Strachey. — Stephen McCauley Copy Share Image
“James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“She had privacy, and the privilege of walking up and down the same battlements as the sentries.” — John Peter Nettl Copy Share Image
“There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one,… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“In American, the history of racism is taught like this: 'There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
“You must be clever, Tracey to do these forgeries." "She's not clever. I did them," yelled Frieda. "You'll get five years." "She… — Robyn Quaker Copy Share Image
“When asked if she would accept his affairs to try to keep her marriage, she commented, "I do. I think that speaks… — Deana Martin Copy Share Image
“Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to… — Clare Mulley Copy Share Image
When I'm dead, somebody can write my biography. I wrote a national hymn, an anthem, which I don't want to present to… — Giorgio Moroder Copy Share Image
“The Bedlam that greeted James Tilly Matthews, then, was not so much a baroque spectacle of depravity as an exhausted and run-down… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that someone must surely take the hint and write the life of Miss McGeeney, the woman who wrote… — Nathanael West Copy Share Image
“Know before whom thou stands. Understand your friends for who they are, not who you wish them to be. Accept them for… — Fran Drescher Copy Share Image
It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I often tell people who want to write historical fiction: don't read all that much about the period you're writing about; read… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life’s chapters and see what can be turned into… — Jolina Petersheim Copy Share Image
“Pong had mutated into large stand-up Sega consoles by '82 and here was some extra revenue the guys were well up for.… — Tony Wilson Copy Share Image
“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever… — Ira Bruce Nadel Copy Share Image
“England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
“The phone rang. It was a familiar voice. It was Alan Greenspan. Paul O'Neill had tried to stay in touch with people… — Ron Suskind Copy Share Image
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“And I *know* I wrote in the above that I hate biographies and reviews that focus on the psychological, surface detail, especially… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“I remember when Elvis died. I wrote my sentiments with words of a little girl in my dear diary, "Many people wanted… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Reading wasn't an attempt to educate myself. It was my chief escape from a world that, although gorgeous in landscape and rich… — Chris Offutt Copy Share Image
Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. — Jerril Thomas Abraham Copy Share Image
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates. — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
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