Biographies Quote by A. Scott Berg Download Open image “I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.” — A. Scott Berg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biographies Biography I think Illuminates Interesting Life and time Lives Only Think Thinking Time Times
For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always… — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject. — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a… — Ann Wroe Copy Share Image
I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known… — Ira Bruce Nadel Copy Share Image
I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life. — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It… — Noel Riley Fitch Copy Share Image
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view. — Richard Attenborough Copy Share Image
We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary. — Rachel Holmes Copy Share Image
The successful editor is one who is constantly finding newwriters, nurturing their talents, and publishing them with critical and financial success. — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
By the '40s, Sam Goldwyn is a very serious man. By the '50s, he's the dean of American producers. To the end, he was… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
Clark Gable seemed fascinating all his life because there wasn't so much information about him. Today, you're on television all the time. — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’ — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
I think it is important for readers to know that it is possible to bring intellectualism and idealism to the White House and still… — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did. — A. Scott Berg Copy Share Image
There are hundreds of books about Woodrow Wilson, but I have an image of him in my mind that is unlike any picture I… — A. Scott Berg 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
