I possess every good quality, but the one that distinguishes me above all is modesty. — Charles Richet Copy Share Image
I always use primary sources, in addition to reading biographies and other materials. — Nancy Horan Copy Share Image
A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done. — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Siamese twins are interesting because they are the only people who can write a biography and an autobiography at the same time. — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
To my deep mortification my father once said to me, "You care for nothing but shooting, dogs, and rat-catching, and you will… — Charles Darwin 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… — Arthur Wing Pinero Copy Share Image
There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources… — Jonathan Dimbleby Copy Share Image
I research the role, and if it's a literary character, I read the book, and if it's an historical figure, I research… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
Kansas City Lightning succeeds as few biographies of jazz musicians have. . . This book is a magnificent achievement; I could hardly… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
For a while I got into the South Pacific theater of World War II. I read "American Caesar" by William Manchester, the… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Since the death of Nikola Tesla in 1943, his life has deserved a worthy biography. Bernard Carlson has delivered that in Tesla:… — Robert Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his… — Blake Bailey Copy Share Image
Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in full… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research is extraordinary;… — Debby Applegate Copy Share Image
I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
His mother's favorite, he possessed the self-confidence that told him he would achieve something worth while in life, and the ambition to… — Ernest Jones Copy Share Image
Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. — Charles Wheelan Copy Share Image
On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an… — Paul Murray Kendall Copy Share Image
Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy… — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
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