I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. — George Plimpton Copy Share Image
I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist'… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J.… — William R. Ferris Copy Share Image
My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies. — Bill Paxton Copy Share Image
Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of… — John Legend Copy Share Image
Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely… — David Levering Lewis Copy Share Image
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Women inspire me... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
My lectures were highly esteemed, but my operations less thought of, so that I am of opinion that my operations rather kept… — Astley Cooper Copy Share Image
I don't make films about celebrities, are not interested in celebrities. I don't make biographies at all. — Heidi Ewing Copy Share Image
A painting that is an act is inseparable from the biography of the artist. — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Some of the biographies [of princess Margaret] were really sensationalist, News of the World sorts, but they were great because they also… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
Carlyle uttered a pregnant truth when he said that the history of any country is in the biographies of the men who… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
The most uninteresting part of the biography of a composer is his childhood. All those preludes are the same and the reader… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life. — Courtney Barnett Copy Share Image
My father, John Steinbeck, was a man who held human history in great reverence, and in particular the biographies of those people… — Thomas Steinbeck Copy Share Image
...learning chiefly in mathematical sciences can so swallow up and fix one's thought, as to possess it entirely for some time; but… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
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