Biography Quotes
231 Biography quotes by 182 unique authors
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I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
— Peter Ackroyd
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
— Arthur Balfour
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I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able…
— David Bowie
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Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.
— Anita Brookner
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When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love…
— Jane Campion
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
— Thomas Carlyle
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I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix;…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
— William Ellery Channing
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Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in…
— Mark Twain
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I have no desire to write my own biography, as long as I have strength and means to do better work.
— Charles Babbage
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The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his…
— Robert Aris Willmott
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Someone calls biography the home aspect of history.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
— Evelyn Waugh
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In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed…
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
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I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you…
— David Maraniss
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A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the…
— Andre Maurois
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Biography is the only true history.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Biography is one of the new terrors of death.
— John Arbuthnot
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You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
— Robert Caro
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Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary, and on the…
— Philip Guedalla
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Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great.
— Edmund White
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I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel.
— Martin Lewis Perl
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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
— Louis Fischer
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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.
— Unknown Author
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