Biography Quotes

231 Biography quotes by 182 unique authors

And if Henry Higgins is not the most reprehensible character ever written for the stage, that's only because somewhere, somehow, someone is composing a musical… — Steve Kluger
Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever… — Adrienne Rich
If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story.… — Oliver Sacks
I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from the words on… — Don DeLillo
According to Nietzche," said a sharp new voice, making them all jump, "philosophy is the biography of the philosopher. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is country born. My… — Beatrix Potter
The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books.… — Frances Hodgson Burnett
You are a coward,' she said, and with that one word wrote a denunciation, a biography, and a prophecy. — Anthony Marra
The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is… — Bernard Malamud
Of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one ... to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is properly no history, only biography. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men. — Virginia Woolf
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as… — Alan Ayckbourn
To show the American woman herself off to best advantage - that has always been my aim and that is my real biography. — Hattie Carnegie
I have always felt a special affinity with V. S. Pritchett. He worked from the ear, primarily, as I do, and he was an all-rounder,… — Kevin Barry
Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
The things we make have one supreme quality - they live longer than us. We perish, they survive; we have one life, they have many… — Neil MacGregor
Whether in print or other media, a good biography is more than a court record or a stringing together of already familiar sources. It breathes… — Noel Riley Fitch
Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American… — Jill Lepore
Why do we read biography? Why do we choose to write it? Because we are human beings, programmed to be curious about other human beings,… — Claire Tomalin

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