Biography Quotes

231 Biography quotes by 182 unique authors

They (animals) are not just living things; they are beings with lives... that makes all the difference in the world...next time you are outside...notice the… — Jonathan Balcombe
I had no expectation that the Prince would offer me the unprecedented and unfettered access to the original and entirely untapped sources on which this… — Jonathan Dimbleby
The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own. — Edward Abbey
It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised… — Margaret Atwood
The most violent revolutions in an individuals beliefs leave most of his old order standing. Time and space, cause and effect, nature and history, and… — William James
A photograph is a biography of a moment. — Unknown Author
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end… — Aharon Appelfeld
I had to live and breathe Margaret Thatcher for a few months. I totally engulfed myself in her life. I read her autobiography and a… — Alexandra Roach
I shall be the first composer in history not to have a biography. — Pierre Boulez
The shadow-past is shaped by everything that never happened. Invisible, it melts the present like rain through karst. A biography of longing. It steers us… — Anne Michaels
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… — Robert Caro
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… — Robert Caro
I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era. — Barbara Taylor Bradford
A damnably readable, streamlined, yet deeply researched work. Skipping the ancestors and aftermath of conventional biography, Max gives us the man, his work, and his… — Blake Bailey
I would recommend you watch the movie 'Jobs' starring Ashton Kutcher, if you don't have time to read Jobs's biography. — Gene Simmons
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less… — Clara Barton
This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ...… — Unknown Author
John Kerry's biography was central to his campaign. — Mark Shields
The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what… — Leon Edel
The biographer who writes the life of his subjects self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life. — Leon Edel

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