Biographies Quote by Barbra Streisand

Biographies, as generally written, are not only misleading but false... In most instances, they commemorate a lie and cheat posterity out of the truth.

— Abraham Lincoln

I just want everybody to know that I'm opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.

— Nick Saban

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

— George Bernard Shaw

Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our…

— Eric Metaxas

Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.

— A. S. Byatt

I wasn't allowed to use people's real names, such as my siblings and my children's father, but there's nothing fabricated or untrue in my…

— Kola Boof

Serious biographies need to have a historical base in facts.

— Fred Kaplan

I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if any of…

— David Weber

However you disguise novels, they are always biographies.

— William Golding

In the world of the Internet, there are many falsehoods. Anyone can write stuff on Wikipedia, and it doesn't have to be true.

— Tom Hulce

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

— Samuel Johnson