Biographies Quotes

333 Biographies quotes by 255 unique authors

Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaul’s research is extraordinary; his writing is… — Debby Applegate
I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography. — Hilaire Belloc
If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus… — Thomas Carlyle
No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they… — Thomas Carlyle
To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in… — Simone Weil
When I read biographies, I'm only interested in the first few chapters. I'm not interested in when people become successful. I'm interested in what made… — Michael Eisner
All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage. — Norman Spinrad
The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to… — David Herbert Donald
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette. — Antonia Fraser
Biography is the best form of history. — Josh Billings
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography. — Henry David Thoreau
I can find my biography in every fable that I read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no history; only biography. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. — Eric Bentley
Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced… — David Levering Lewis
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer. — Arthur Wing Pinero
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. — Carlos Fuentes
Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. — Charles Wheelan
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes… — Carl Jung
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers. — Bruno Tonioli
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. — Conrad Veidt
I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My… — Richard Lewis

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