Biographies Quotes

333 Biographies quotes by 255 unique authors

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly… — Norman Spinrad
While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven… — Jerry B. Jenkins
There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to… — Pamela Stephenson
I don't write [screenplay character] biographies beforehand. I usually go in knowing some sequences: this is where I want to start, this is where I… — John Sayles
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material. — Reza Aslan
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaulâ€™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 â€“ if it werenâ€™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

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