Biographies Quotes · Page 7

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.

— Antonia Fraser

I'm not fond of biographies. I don't like writing about myself.

— Wole Soyinka

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.

— Wilbur Smith

I've had three biographies made about my life so people know an awful lot about me.

— David Cassidy

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

— William Golding

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

— George Bernard Shaw

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

— Cynthia Ozick

I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography.

— Pierre Boulez

Like thousands of other boys, I had a little chemical laboratory in our cellar and think that some of our friends thought…

— Linus Pauling

I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her…

— Alexandra Roach

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and…

— Archibald Geikie

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and…

— Seth Grahame-Smith

Behind each biography there should always be a rich treasury of unformulated knowledge, a tapestry that has not been unrolled.

— Iris Origo

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of…

— Henry Fairfield Osborn

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

— Georges Cuvier

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

“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

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

In a fit at the bookstore one day, I bought all my favourite composers' biographies: Schubert, Massenet, Wolf. I've still not had…

— Danielle de Niese

I've never gone through the paces that writing textbooks sometimes recommend, such as writing out a character's biography, or determining what his…

— Teddy Wayne

The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the…

— Leon Edel

The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with…

— David Herbert Donald

I was influenced at an early age by Gandhi, and I have read many biographies of him. I have been greatly influenced…

— Mary Robinson

But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be…

— Frederick Niecks

My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts, but why…

— Charles Darwin

“And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each…

— Philip Roth

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

The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their…

— Carl Jung

Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are. We believe in a…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

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

Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I…

— Bernard Bolzano

Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure.…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.

— Colm Toibin

All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.

— Norman Spinrad

Biography is the mesh through which real life escapes.

— Tom Stoppard

Nothing can be more improving to a young naturalist, than a journey in a distant country.

— Charles Darwin

Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

— Enrico Fermi

I have a large collection of biographies about jazz musicians.

— Michael Connelly

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

— Pamela Stephenson

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

— A. Scott Berg