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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra… — Eberhard Weber Copy Share Image
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. — Antonia Fraser Copy Share Image
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing.… — John Green Copy Share Image
biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer. — Linda Simon Copy Share Image
What would become of all historical biography if it was written only with consideration for other peoples' feelings? — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
I spend a great deal of time on research, on finding all the available accounts of a scene or incident, finding out… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai… — Madhur Bhandarkar Copy Share Image
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write. — Julie Salamon Copy Share Image
