There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. — Alphonse de Lamartine Copy Share Image
John looked ruddy and plump, with a pair of cheeks like a trumpeter. — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“Biographies should also contain the events that failed to foreshadow.” — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is… — Steve Kluger Copy Share Image
What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
[I] learnt, for the first time, the joys of substituting hard, disciplined study for the indulgence of day-dreaming. — James Black Copy Share Image
I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Almost any biography will have its useful suggestions for making life a success, but none better or more unfailing than the biography… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When we work on a piece of music, we'll often read the biographies of the composer and learn about what was going… — Helene Grimaud Copy Share Image
Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read… — Brad Listi Copy Share Image
We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I've published many biographies over the years and enjoyed working with writers on their research, discussing it, thinking about it and how… — Victoria Wilson Copy Share Image
Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I'd prefer people read about Churchill and how he wasn't overwhelmed by Nazi Germany. Amazing; that the morale of a country rested… — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
Narratives are not fixed. We change our narratives for ourselves and we change them not necessarily deliberately. In other words, some people… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
We must raise the salaries of our operators or they will all be taken from us, that is, all that are good… — Samuel Morse Copy Share Image
One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence… — William Crawford Williamson Copy Share Image
I had to imagine myself into certain aspects of [Julian Assange] character for our version of events. That involved extrapolating based on… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989… — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
“Many are the lives of men unwritten, which have nevertheless as powerfully influenced civilization and progress as the more fortunate Great whose… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
In trying to evaluate Hopkins' unique contribution to biochemistry it may perhaps be said that he alone amongst his contemporaries succeeded in… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
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