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- On the trail of another man, the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn; any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.
- But the involuntary tricks of memory and the voluntary ones of imagination make always such terrible havoc of facts that truth, be it ever so…
- Writing a biography is not a love affair. It’s not a marriage. It’s a job, it’s a piece of work.
- If for no other reason, Frank Lloyd Wright would be justly famous for Fallingwater, one of the most extraordinary houses in the world. This biography…
- A photograph is a biography of a moment.
- This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ...…
- More than a needed biography of Ehrenburg . . . Tangled Loyalties is a contribution of much significance to our understanding of the history of…
- A Daring Life: A Biography of Eudora Welty is a beautifully written portrait of Eudora Welty and her amazing life. Carolyn J. Brown carries the…
- I have been devoured all my life by an incurable and burning impatience: and to this day find all oratory, biography, operas, films, plays, books,…
- Reading history is good for all of us, he says, not surprisingly, perhaps, but his rationale is a fresh, somewhat bracing thought: If you know…
- The best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another…
- Once the implicit aim of biography was to uplift now it is to unveil.
More Biography Quotes
- Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography… — Mark Twain
- When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's… — Criss Jami
- 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
- No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men. — Thomas Carlyle
- 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
- Someone calls biography the home aspect of history. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. — Evelyn Waugh