Biography Quotes

231 Biography quotes by 182 unique authors

I had lost faith in biography. — A. N. Wilson
Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. — Carter G. Woodson
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story… — Christine Quinn
I've always been fascinated by books. When I was young, my grandfather used to hand out a book - which would be anything from a… — Ashwin Sanghi
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is… — Mark Twain
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. — Oscar Wilde
Wherever the poetry of myth is interpreted as biography, history, or science, it is killed. — Joseph Campbell
The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality. — Charles Baudelaire
We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the… — Viktor E. Frankl
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They… — Irving Stone
A raznochinets needs no memoryâ€”it is enough for him to tell of the books he has read, and his biography is done. — Osip Mandelstam
All history is biography. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always live your life with your biography in mind. — Marisha Pessl
I was a biography in constant motion, memory to the marrow of my bones. — Philip Roth
Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that… — Virginia Woolf
I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by… — William James
And since we donâ€™t just forget things because they donâ€™t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers… — Philip Roth
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and… — Fernando Pessoa
Always live your life with your biography in mind," Dad was fond of saying. "Naturally, it won't be published unless you have a Magnificent Reason,… — Marisha Pessl

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