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I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them. — Kate Fleetwood
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly… — Penelope Fitzgerald
The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. — E. C. Bentley
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write. — Julie Salamon
Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time. — Carrie P Snow
The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand. — Virginia Woolf
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or… — Rachel Carson
DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close… — Alvin Ailey
The spectral density of black body radiation ... represents something absolute, and since the search for the absolutes has always appeared to me to be… — Max Planck
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make… — Burton Silverman
Our theology must become biography. — Tim Hansel
When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's… — Criss Jami
[L]ife, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography. — Tom Stoppard
Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave all his life… — Sylvia Plath
I grew up reading biographies on groups, and I love all that. The thing about biographies, it's the old cliché but it's true - a… — Stevie Jackson
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography? — John Kenneth Galbraith
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I love fools' experiments. I am always making them. — Charles Darwin
I am turned into a sort of machine for observing facts and grinding out conclusions. — Charles Darwin
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. — Benjamin Disraeli
If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in… — Clint Eastwood
Great geniuses have the shortest biographies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want… — Julius Erving

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