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Biographies Quotes by Robert Caro
- You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
More Biographies Quotes
- I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. — Peter Ackroyd
- Biography should be written by an acute enemy. — Arthur Balfour
- I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I… — David Bowie
- Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography. — Anita Brookner
- Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends. — A. S. Byatt
- When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because… — Jane Campion
- No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle
- I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a… — Helena Bonham Carter
- One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. — William Ellery Channing
- Some Western biographies are apologist, and do not portray the negative side at all. — Deepak Chopra
- Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain
- I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work. — Charles Babbage