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Biography Quotes by Peter Ackroyd
- I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.
- 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…
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- Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain
- I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive. — Peter Ackroyd
- Biography should be written by an acute enemy. — Arthur Balfour
- The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.… — Robert Aris Willmott
- Biography is one of the new terrors of death. — John Arbuthnot
- You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy. — Robert Caro
- Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the east by obituary,… — Philip Guedalla
- I'm an avid biography reader. — Brent Spiner