Biography Quotes

231 quotes by 182 authors

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
Biography can be the most middle-class of all forms, the judgment of little people avenging themselves on the great. — Edmund White
I read everything: fiction, history, science, mathematics, biography, travel. — Martin Lewis Perl
Biography is history seen through the prism of a person. — Louis Fischer
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
I'm an avid biography reader. — Brent Spiner
Perhaps the deepest reason we are afraid of death is that we do not know who we are. We believe in a personal, unique, and… — Sogyal Rinpoche
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… — Unknown Author
Biography is to give a man some kind of shape after his death. — Virginia Woolf
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought… — Rebecca West
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is impossible to avoid the suspicion that historical Jesus research is a very safe place to do theology and call it history, to do… — John Dominic Crossan
I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events… — Barbara Kruger
I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's. — Emmylou Harris
I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view. — Richard Attenborough
I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in… — Bill Mumy
Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. — Pamela Stephenson
A new biography came out that says that in high school Obama was a huge pothead â€¦ Mitt Romney had to respond to this and… — Bill Maher
Writing a biography is not a love affair. Itâ€™s not a marriage. Itâ€™s a job, itâ€™s a piece of work. — Unknown Author
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… — Unknown Author

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