Biographies Quote by A. N. Wilson Download Open image “I had lost faith in biography.” — A. N. Wilson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biographies Faith Lost Lost faith
When I was young and easily outraged, I would be upset when every fictional character I created was somehow reduced to 'autobiography.' — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I had many doubts while writing my autobiography. I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested to read about my life. — Naseeruddin Shah Copy Share Image
I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
There is no real escape from autobiography into biography. The self has to be faced, or we die. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me. — David Cassidy Copy Share Image
I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody. — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject. — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
I felt that Stephen had become such a significant figure, a scientist of such international renown, that at some future date, someone would be… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey Copy Share Image
There's something about the authenticity rather than the autobiography that makes my story and my pain move across and become your story and your… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think one of the very frightening things about the regime of the National Socialists is that it made people happy. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations'… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I very much dislike the intolerance and moralism of many Christians, and feel more sympathy with Honest Doubters than with them. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity -- or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity -- by being opinionated rather than… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
