Biography Quotes

231 Biography quotes by 182 unique authors

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
I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this was the first… — Joyce Carol Oates
I wrote a novel called 'Blonde,' which is about Norma Jean Baker, who becomes Marilyn Monroe, which I called a fictitious biography. That uses the… — Joyce Carol Oates
There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography. — Thomas Szasz
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written. — Mark Twain
But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography. — John Updike
This is the best biography by me I have ever read. — Lawrence Welk
There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present. — Orson Welles
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real… — Rebecca West
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. — Oscar Wilde
Biography lends to death a new terror. — Oscar Wilde

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