“England has her Stratford, Scotland has her Alloway, and America, too, has her Dresden. For there, on August 11, 1833, was born… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
“None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.” — James Vescovi Copy Share Image
John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he… — Thomas Mallon Copy Share Image
“May be you find out I could be useful getting people out of camps and prisons in Germany - just before they… — Christine Granville Copy Share Image
The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre. — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“... it is the purpose of this history to trace not the mere outlines of a life but the inner plan, not… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
“ Bentham was an atheist and in no sense of the word could he be described as a theologian.” — James E. Crimmins Copy Share Image
“It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude of personality, that the ingredient of pure… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“People are complicated,” she said. “Didn’t they teach you that in biography school?” — Frederick Weisel Copy Share Image
“I don't know who first said it, but this proverb is something I believe: A lion leading a lot of sheep can… — Yao Ming Copy Share Image
“The art stream is filled with snags and has no volume so it has no support. If you finally choose art, no… — Theresa Sjoquist Copy Share Image
“Liberty is about being free and is granted by laws and conventions and government permissions. Freedom is about feeling free, and the… — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
“Sometimes when a person is not being heard, it is appropriate to blame him or her. Perhaps he or she is speaking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“For when I trace back the years I have liv'd, gathering them up in my Memory, I see what a chequer'd Work… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“The meat market itself was probably a greater influence on Spare than his first school. It offered a spectacle of thousands of… — Phil Baker Copy Share Image
“Freedom was my daring travel companion on the thrilling ride of life.” — Beth Kempton Copy Share Image
“If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
“Matthews' shout of treason in the House was no random outburst of lunacy, but the last act in an astonishing adventure: one… — Mike Jay Copy Share Image
