Biographies Quotes

333 Biographies quotes by 255 unique authors

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 clichÃ© 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
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

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