A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the… — Alan Ayckbourn Copy Share Image
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
I approached the bulk of my schoolwork as a chore rather than an intellectual adventure. The tedium was relieved by a few… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The reality is, if you go to the library and read biographies, thousands of people have changed, radically changed. St. Augustine was… — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work. — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three… — Jerry B. Jenkins Copy Share Image
Six-hundred-page biographies of German theologians aren't known to fly off the shelves. — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial… — Iris Origo Copy Share Image
There are things in our lives that take up an enormous importance and that become very dominant effects in our biography. And… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
A great deal of my work is just playing with equations and seeing what they give. — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“Something I eventually learned: Prince's top girlfriend was always in Minneapolis. When you came to Minneapolis, you were the girl on her… — Mayte Garcia Copy Share Image
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