Biography Quotes

I view my records as a personal biography.

— Jose Jose

“I don't know enough to have any regrets”

— Vince Grabin

I had lost faith in biography.

— A. N. Wilson

“You have a life; make a success of it.”

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

All Philosophy is Biography

— Peter J. Carroll

Biography is the best form of history.

— Josh Billings

Your biography becomes your biology.

— Caroline Myss

Our theology must become biography.

— Tim Hansel

“We all have the innate capacity to feel free.”

— Beth Kempton

“Your heart knows there is a greater version of your life available to you.”

— Beth Kempton

“None of my friends had grandparents like these. ... Tony and Desolina were exotic.”

— James Vescovi

“We often build our lives in a way that shuts out freedom.”

— Beth Kempton

“When you see the Statue of Liberty, you will be in America.”

— Antonio Russo

“People are complicated,” she said. “Didn’t they teach you that in biography school?”

— Frederick Weisel

You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.

— Iain Sinclair

“You are not alone. There are Freedom Seekers everywhere.”

— Beth Kempton

“I have had a lot of readers of my book tell me that they like it, but so far only two reviews…

— Rollis Fontenot Jr

“Freedom is found within, in the shape of our laughter and the way we love, in the truths that we live by…

— Beth Kempton

“Laura also tried to comfort her staff (after 9/11), but Kathi Card never saw fear in her. "Someone with a strong faith…

— Ronald Kessler

“When you are trapped in a cage with broken wings, freedom can seem like a faraway deeply buried treasure. But it is…

— Beth Kempton

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. -- Stella Adler”

— Sheana Ochoa

People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad…

— Claire Tomalin

“The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.”

— Annie Cohen-Solal

I think that when Tolkien created Gollum and the ring, he even expressed in his biography that he never really knew what…

— Richard Armitage

“In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be…

— Terry Lee Rioux

The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us,' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of…

— Thomas Mallon

I have a piano in my kitchen. I read a great biography about Tom Waits that said that he had a piano…

— Jamie Cullum

“Yet how could I not have believed Hitler a genius and unique when every day I saw and heard how the major…

— Heinz Linge

I don't see that my age has anything to do with what is between the covers of my book, any more than…

— Eleanor Catton

“Whatever you believe, and however, each of us deals with these events in our lives, one thing is for certain the truism,…

— Sarah Jane Butfield

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

I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he…

— Kevin Barry

“You know...give peace a chance, not shoot people for peace. All we need is love. I believe it. it's damned hard but…

— Philip Norman

“The Ritz Hotel was grand, sophisticated, and established, unlike me. The only thing we had in common was façade. Mine may not…

— Aiden Shaw

“Maybe he'd never come across anybody as well versed at objectifying body parts as I was. In my defense, this was an…

— Aiden Shaw

“Tolkien came to regard the tale of Beren and Tinuviel as 'the first example of the motive (to become dominant in Hobbits)…

— John Garth

“I couldn't think of anything I wanted to do or any place I wanted to be more than home. Where I can…

— Sissy Spacek Maryanne Vollers

“On Saturday evening, August 5, 2017, FAPA announced and presented awards to the 2017 medalists at the FAPA President’s Book Awards Banquet…

— Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise

“Will we ever see his like again? It is doubtful. But at least for a brief moment in time we were lucky…

— James Leighton

“Today I'm aware of all the times I have said no to opportunities God has placed before me because I think I'm…

— Heather Avis