Art Quote by Cass McCombs

Thank God we don't know a lot about Shakespeare or Moses or Homer or Lautreamont. These are the best guys we got, and their…

— Cass McCombs

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

I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.

— Margaret Bourke-White

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

— A. Scott Berg

Biographies never feel as real as the best fiction. There is such a discontinuity between the narrative and the material it comes from, which…

— Janet Malcolm

Unfortunately, I'm not a history buff. I don't read biographies, except of some of those writers whom I've collected over the years - particularly…

— John Larroquette

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. Their cousins can tell you nothing about them. They lived in their writings, and sotheir house and street…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are a few writers whose lives and personalities are so large, so fascinating, that there's no such thing as a boring biography of…

— Robert Gottlieb

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record…

— Samuel Smiles

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

— George Saintsbury

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