Biography Quotes

231 Biography quotes by 182 unique authors

I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first… — Joyce Carol Oates
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the… — Joyce Carol Oates
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. — Thomas Szasz
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. — Mark Twain
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. — John Updike
This is the best biography by me I have ever read. — Lawrence Welk
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. — Orson Welles
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real… — Rebecca West
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. — Oscar Wilde
Biography lends to death a new terror. — Oscar Wilde
I had lost faith in biography. — A. N. Wilson
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. — Carter G. Woodson
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story… — Christine Quinn
I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a… — Ashwin Sanghi
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is… — Mark Twain
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. — Oscar Wilde
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. — Charles Baudelaire
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the… — Viktor E. Frankl
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They… — Irving Stone
A raznochinets needs no memory—it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done. — Osip Mandelstam
All history is biography. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always live your life with your biography in mind. — Marisha Pessl
I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones. — Philip Roth

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