Biographies Quote by Anonymous

Next to the Holy Scriptures, the greatest aide to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Of all studies, the most delightful and the most useful is biography. The seeds of great events lie near the surface; historians delve too…

— Walter Savage Landor

Any good biography has to got to lead you to the work. Many biographers have started out in love with their subjects and ended…

— D. T. Max

[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really…

— Theodore Roosevelt

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

— A. Scott Berg

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

— Reza Aslan

It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to…

— John Dominic Crossan

A biography is never a biography of one person, of course, but the individual life of your protagonist will never conform. It will always…

— Rachel Holmes

I do not think that one is likely to write a good biography unless one feels some sympathy with its subject.

— Iris Origo

When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what…

— Michael Eisner

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we…

— Rebecca West

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis