Biographies Quotes

333 Biographies quotes by 255 unique authors

The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking,… — Derek Walcott
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading. — Thomas Carlyle
I'd be happy to have my biography be the stories of my dogs. To me, to live without dogs would mean accepting a form of… — Thomas McGuane
A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J. Brown carries the… — Unknown Author
My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew… — Justin Hayward
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture… — Aldous Huxley
Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories and criticism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table… — Anthony Trollope
I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is… — Dawn French
I was a voracious reader and the library fed my curiosity, imagination and my soul. I read by the shelf - biographies, fantasy - all… — Susan Sarandon
At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than… — Robert Adams
I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth… — Anne Lamott
Your biography becomes your biology. — Caroline Myss
I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting… — John Irving
Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are. — Tony Robbins
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography,… — Tom Shippey
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its… — Horace Mann
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. — George Plimpton
The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence… — Malcolm Gladwell
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. — Walter Jon Williams

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