Biographies Quotes

333 Biographies quotes by 255 unique authors

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. — Walter Isaacson
Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him. — Samuel Johnson
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible… — Louis L'Amour
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon. — Walter Lippmann
When I was 12 years old, I read 'Nancy Drew' mysteries and biographies of Madame Curie and Florence Nightingale and books about girls who love… — Joyce Maynard
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. — V.S. Naipaul
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. — V.S. Naipaul
At the Sex Institute in Bloomington, Indiana, they were a phenomenal help, too. We went out there for a few days, and they gave us… — Liam Neeson
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.' — Joyce Carol Oates
I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first… — Joyce Carol Oates
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the… — Joyce Carol Oates
I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background. — Wilbur Smith
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday. — Barbra Streisand
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. — Thomas Szasz
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. — Mark Twain
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. — John Updike
This is the best biography by me I have ever read. — Lawrence Welk
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. — Orson Welles
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real… — Rebecca West
Biography lends to death a new terror. — Oscar Wilde
I had lost faith in biography. — A. N. Wilson
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. — Carter G. Woodson
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the… — Virginia Woolf
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story… — Christine Quinn
I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a… — Ashwin Sanghi

Who Wrote These Biographies Quotes

255 authors contributed a total of 333 Biographies Quotes, led by these top contributors: