Biographies Quotes

333 Biographies quotes by 255 unique authors

I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this… — Jonathan Dimbleby
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Edward Abbey
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised… — Margaret Atwood
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and… — William James
Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these… — Jurgen Habermas
It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.' — Bernard Malamud
A photograph is a biography of a moment. — Unknown Author
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end… — Aharon Appelfeld
In reading the biographies of very successful men and women, one theme frequently surfaces: such people have a strong bias for action. Those who achieve… — Steve Pavlina
I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a… — Alexandra Roach
I've always had an abundance of material about the subjects of my biographies. — Walter Isaacson
If you read the biographies of people who have written good books, you often see the point where they suddenly come into themselves, and those… — Jonathan Franzen
I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography. — Pierre Boulez
I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if… — Penelope Fitzgerald
There won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken yard do not make exciting… — Flannery O'Connor
The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us… — Anne Michaels
Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible. — Mick Jagger
I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and… — Robert Caro
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a… — Robert Caro
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man… — Robert Caro
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era. — Barbara Taylor Bradford
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his… — Blake Bailey
I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography. — Gene Simmons
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less… — Clara Barton
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ...… — Unknown Author

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