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- The facts of a person's life will, like murder, come out.
- On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.
- But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so…
- Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.
- If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the world. This biography…
- A photograph is a biography of a moment.
- This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ...…
- More than a needed biography of Ehrenburg . . . Tangled Loyalties is a contribution of much significance to our understanding of the history of…
- 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…
- The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another…
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