Biography Quotes

231 Biography quotes by 182 unique authors

My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew… — Justin Hayward
I think that fiction and, as I say, history and biography are immensely important, not only for their own sake, because they provide a picture… — Aldous Huxley
In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table… — Anthony Trollope
I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is… — Dawn French
At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than… — Robert Adams
Your biography becomes your biology. — Caroline Myss
I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting… — John Irving
Your biography is not your destiny, your decisions are. — Tony Robbins
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography,… — Tom Shippey
Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its… — Horace Mann
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. — George Plimpton
The Tipping Point is the biography of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the emergence… — Malcolm Gladwell
Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science. — Walter Jon Williams
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly… — Norman Spinrad
My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material. — Reza Aslan
Becoming Richard Pryor is a compulsively readable book that sets a new gold standard for American biography. Scott Scaulâ€™s research is extraordinary; his writing is… — Debby Applegate
I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived… — Siddhartha Mukherjee
All fiction is lies â€“ if it werenâ€™t, it would be biography, history, or reportage. — Norman Spinrad
The big biography of Lincoln necessarily had to do so much with his political career, his ambitions, his accomplishments in public, with less time to… — David Herbert Donald
I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette. — Antonia Fraser

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