Appetite Quote by Charles Baudelaire

I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a…

— Ann Wroe

Sometimes if biography is too head-on, it can feel too obvious.

— Peter Morgan

[On writing biography:] ... every human life is at once so complex and so simple, so perplexing and so clear, so superficial and so…

— Iris Origo

The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of the many which make up a tunic; one thread…

— Eric Hoffer

Let us have our heroes. Let us continue to believe that some have been truly great; that it lies within human ability to overcome…

— Lyndon Baines Johnson

“A biography should be faithful to the truth. I do not believe that a biography of a man should be all praises, it should…

— Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“No one is born with equality. We all come here with varying degrees of opportunities, qualities, strengths, weaknesses, IQ, etc.”

— Brandi L. Bates

For me the fascination with biography is the life of the individual in the context of history.

— Rachel Holmes

That is what is most special about achieving equality - the positive signal that it will send the world over to the next generation…

— Maria Sharapova

“We must choose to use our voice to say that equality should be a reality. For ALL people. We may not all be destined…

— Trudy Bourgeois

The great lesson of biography is to show what man can be and do at his best. A noble life put fairly on record…

— Samuel Smiles

I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.

— A. Scott Berg