Biography Quotes

231 Biography quotes by 182 unique authors

People who attack biography choose as their models vulgar and offensive biography. You could equally attack novels or poems by choosing bad poems or novels. — Claire Tomalin
The most frequent thing people said to me about Princess Diana when I was conducting interviews for my biography was that she could create a… — Tina Brown
I think that when Tolkien created Gollum and the ring, he even expressed in his biography that he never really knew what he created until… — Richard Armitage
John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be… — Thomas Mallon
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials… — Robert Hall
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights… — Harold Brodkey
Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance… — Edmund White
I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates. — A. Scott Berg
HOMILETICS, n. The science of adapting sermons to the spiritual needs, capacities and conditions of the congregation. So skilled the parson was in homiletics That… — Ambrose Bierce
I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books,… — Unknown Author
Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: If you know… — Unknown Author
Heyyy guys I just wrote my bio...FINALLY!! Tehehe:D ~ Check it out if you wanna:) — Rachel
I don't care about popularity or on how many numbers a blogger can have or how long each word exist. Because it's not the reason… — Gien Caytuna
Life is a rough biography. Memories smooth out the edges — Superman
Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. — Jerril Thomas Abraham
It is in the elements that we found ourselves; even though the elements are not the, same Now. — Jerril Thomas Abraham
The New Testament is a Biography of the life of Jesus, and the Testimony of all his Disciples and all the Authors and Apostles of… — Glen Rambharack
I think that I'm busy in the present, and I don't want to go back. Well, there's been an unauthorized biography, and you can't stop… — Albert Finney
I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle… — Jonathan Coe
I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his… — Stephen Greenblatt

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