Biography Quotes

231 Biography quotes by 182 unique authors

Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be… — Lauren Groff
I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but… — Peter Ackroyd
When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh,… — Douglas Brinkley
In a world of alternative lifestyle options, strategic life planning becomes of special importance. Like lifestyle patterns, life plans of one kind or another are… — Anthony Giddens
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his… — Jane Campion
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

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