Biographies Quote by B. Traven Download Open image “The creative person should have no other biography than his works.” — B. Traven ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Biographies Creative Creative person Creativity Persons Should
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
“In many ways. . .the completeness of biography, the achievement of its professionalization, is an ironic fiction, since no life can ever be known… — Ira Bruce Nadel Copy Share Image
The particulars of life do not matter to the artist; they merely provide him with the opportunity to lay bare his genius. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
It is one of the ironies of biographical art that some details are more relevant than others, and many details have no relevance at… — Paul Bailey Copy Share Image
Morals are taught & preached not for the sake of heaven, but to assist those people on earth who have everything they need &… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions! The only real defence civilized man has against anybody who bothers… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
The treasure which you think not worth taking trouble and pains to find, this alone is the real treasure you are longing for all… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
“don't ever believe that kings were done with when the fathers of the country made a revolution.” — B. Traven Copy Share Image
A trip to a Central American jungle to watch how Indians behave near a bridge won't make you see either the jungle or the… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
The deplorable thing is that the people who were tortured yesterday, torture today. — B. Traven Copy Share Image
The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies. — B. Traven Copy Share Image
“it would have been a rare thing anyhow for an official to come upon an idea that is not provided for in the regulations.” — B. Traven Copy Share Image
My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
Anyone who is willing to work and is serious about it will certainly find a job. Only you must not go to the man… — B. Traven Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
If I were entering adulthood now instead of in the environment of fifty years ago, I would choose a career that kept me in… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
Biographies of great, but especially of good men are most instructive and useful as helps, guides, and incentives to others. Some of the best… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share
The richly cadenced prose is hypnotic, the research prodigious, the analysis acute, the mood spellbinding, and the cast of characters mythic in scale. I… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
I read so ravenously that I would read through whole categories. I was crazy about reading biographies. [...] I think biographies are very urgent… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I don't want to say that most rock bands live these formulaic biography existences - but they kinda do. There's always a divorce. There's… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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