Biography Quotes

231 Biography quotes by 182 unique authors

I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he… — Miguel Ferrer
Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history. — Todd Gitlin
Let This Voice Be Heard fulfills the mandate of biography at its best because Maurice Jackson has captured the history of a great moral movement's… — David Levering Lewis
I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them. — Kate Fleetwood
The art of biography is different from geography. Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps. — E. C. Bentley
The biography I've written about Wendy Wasserstein will almost invariably be different than the one anyone else would write. — Julie Salamon
A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand. — Virginia Woolf
The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or… — Rachel Carson
DeFrantz's study...is not the first book about the protean Ailey, who was born in hardscrabble Texas in 1931 and died in 1989 after creating close… — Alvin Ailey
Alas, it is just a single image - an extended moment perhaps. Unlike a biography, a portrait cannot present the many differing moments that make… — Burton Silverman
Our theology must become biography. — Tim Hansel
When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's… — Criss Jami
[L]ife, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in… — Jose Ortega y Gasset
Art cannot be subordinate to its subject, otherwise it is not art but biography. — Tom Stoppard
Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave all his life… — Sylvia Plath
We have escapist fiction, so why not escapist biography? — John Kenneth Galbraith
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead. — Samuel Goldwyn
Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory. — Benjamin Disraeli
If you're doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don't know what was going on in… — Clint Eastwood
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible… — Louis L'Amour
After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems… — Taryn Manning
Great writing can be done in biography, history, art. — V.S. Naipaul
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. — V.S. Naipaul
A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.' — Joyce Carol Oates

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