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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.

— Eric Bentley

Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on…

— Philip Guedalla

Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.

— Louis Fischer

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

— A. Scott Berg

A bibliophile has approximately the same relationship to literature as a philatelist to geography.

— Karl Kraus

“The decline of geography in academia is easy to understand: we live in an age of ever-increasing specialization, and geography is a generalist's discipline.…

— Ken Jennings

Landscape pictures can offer us, I think, three verities: geography, autobiography, and metaphor. Geography is, if taken alone, sometimes boring, autobiography is frequently trivial,…

— Robert Adams

I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

— Peter Ackroyd

Autobiography is mostly alibiography.

— Clare Boothe Luce

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

— Rachel Holmes

Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.

— Henry Ward Beecher