Biographies Quotes

333 Biographies quotes by 255 unique authors

Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced… — David Levering Lewis
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any writer. — Arthur Wing Pinero
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. — Carlos Fuentes
Read obituaries. They are just like biographies, only shorter. They remind us that interesting, successful people rarely lead orderly, linear lives. — Charles Wheelan
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes… — Carl Jung
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I love reading. I'm very much into history, novels, biographies and I have a wide range of thrillers. — Bruno Tonioli
What use is there for a biography of myself? I'm just a movie actor. — Conrad Veidt
I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My… — Richard Lewis
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since… — Anthony Powell
Newt Gingrich wrote a novel, and he's a short story. Bill Clinton wrote a biography, and he's a novel. — James McBride
Cuvier had even in his address & manner the character of a superior Man, much general power & eloquence in conversation & great variety of… — Humphry Davy
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'Ãªtre. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science or… — Steven Chu
For three days now this angel, almost too heavenly for earth has been my fiancÃ©e ... Life stands before me like an eternal spring with… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a… — Charles Darwin
I admired Bohr very much. We had long talks together, long talks in which Bohr did practically all the talking. — Paul Dirac
I do not want to write beyond this point, because those days when I studied relentlessly are nostalgic to me; and on the other hand,… — Hideki Yukawa
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have sought… — Hans Zinsser
...a man estimable for his learning, amiable for his life, and venerable for his piety. Arbuthnot was a man of great comprehension, skilful in his… — Samuel Johnson

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