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
Like Richard Ellmann on James Joyce, Arnold Rampersad on Ralph Ellison is in a class of its own. His masterful and magisterial… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it. — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
The second volume of Reiner Stach's epic biography of Franz Kafka . . . [is] a tangle of counter-grained and often under-sourced… — Steve Donoghue Copy Share Image
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Somebody said, "Well, you're going to write your definitive book about your life, biography." No, I'm not. I haven't done that. I… — George H. W. Bush 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
When you read a history or biography you are entitled to imagine that it is as accurate as the authors can make… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
As an elected official who comes from the African-American community, there are some similarities. You are always trying to reconcile your own… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
[Referring to Fourier's mathematical theory of the conduction of heat] ... Fourier's great mathematical poem ... — Lord Kelvin 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
if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new… — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
More than a needed biography of Ehrenburg . . . Tangled Loyalties is a contribution of much significance to our understanding of… — Robert C. Tucker Copy Share Image
I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Each of us needs an adequate biography: How do I put together into a coherent image the pieces of my life? How… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects… — D. T. Max Copy Share Image
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